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November Unemployment Hits Seven Year High In Brazil As Supreme Court Mulls Impeachment Bid

"They will not achieve anything by attacking my record, which is known; I love my country and I'm honest. I will fight against the illegitimate interruption of my mandate using all the tools that the rule of law gives me,” embattled President Dilma Rousseff told a gathering of youth groups late Wednesday in Brasilia. 

One of those “tools” was the Supreme Court and more specifically Judge Luiz Fachin who Rousseff appointed last June.