Is the U.S. State Department running out of new people, new nations to sanction? “The United States is sanctioning enablers of Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, to include Moraes’ wife, Viviane Barci de Moraes, and their holding company, the Lex Institute,” the State Department announced on Sept. 22. The statement was issued in Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s name.
The State Department declared that those “who protect and enable foreign malign actors like Moraes” thereby also “threaten U.S. interests and will also be held to account,” a description so broad that Moraes’s local grocery store manager might expect to be sanctioned for “enabling” the Moraes family to purchase food so that they can eat.
