Brazil’s Supreme Court has denied a request by former President Jair Bolsonaro to temporarily restore his passport so he could attend the inauguration in Washington of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump next week. Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who Bolsonaro frequently has called his personal foe, said in his ruling Thursday that Bolsonaro currently holds no position that would allow him to represent Brazil at the event and argued that the former president did not prove to the court that he had actually been invited. Bolsonaro, under several wide-ranging investigations, had his passport seized by federal police in February of last year because he was considered a flight risk. His lawyers say he has a signed letter from the inauguration co-chairs.
