To that end, the Harris campaign has been assembling a team of lawyers to fight back against Trump lawyers should the former president lose but then try to get the results overturned through the courts.

Bolsonaro’s all-but-official championing of deforestation in the Amazon region proved to be much less broadly popular, though his reduction of the punitive powers of the country’s environmental agencies—which protected the Amazon rainforest and the interests of indigenous people who lived there—was warmly greeted by the business sectors that profited from the region’s exploitation. Bolsonaro’s government turned a blind eye to illegal logging concerns that clear-cut protected land and then burned the remaining trees to make way for cattle ranching and mining. However, in July and August 2019, when forest fires in the region were blazing at levels that had not been reached for some 10 years, there was an uproar both within Brazil and from an international community that was concerned about the impact the damaging of the rainforest would have on climate change.

Musk's attorneys filed documents Wednesday night in the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, a federal court, requesting the matter be moved to their jurisdiction – and out of the local Court of Common Pleas. A judge granted that transfer. 

Despite a judge's order that "all parties must be present," Tesla founder, bolsonaro X owner and billionaire Elon Musk did not appear in a Philadelphia courtroom Thursday after District Attorney Larry Krasner sued him over his super PAC's plan to award $1 million a day to voters in key battleground states in the 2024 election.

Trump's campaign later clarified that if Congress made abortion illegal, that the doctor would be held responsible, not the woman.

Voter intimidation charge added for 18-year-old accused of brandishing machete at Florida polling station

Bolsonaro provoked considerable controversy for public remarks made in July 2008, where he proposed to provide poor people with birth control methods, who he suggested might be too uneducated to understand family planning education. Bolsonaro said:

“There is nobody on the campaign who believes the election will be done on Election Day,” one longtime aide said.

"They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do bolsonaro morreu an hour," he wrote.

Polls show a neck-and-neck race, with razor-thin polling margins in key battleground states. But while Harris and her allies have been portraying the vice president as the underdog in the race, Trump’s messaging has been less nuanced and more focused on the idea bolsonaro careca he will win, which sends signals to supporters that any outcome where he does not is fraudulent.

Investigations continue into alleged illegal spying when his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro was in power.

Starlink is a megaconstellation, or satellite Internet constellation, with more than three million subscribers as of 2024.

“That window of time between the polls closing and races being called, I think, has shown to be a real vulnerability, where people seeking to undermine confidence in those results if they’re going to lose have really exploited,” Al Schmidt, Pennsylvania’s top election official, told CBS’ “60 Minutes” earlier this month.

Those with big pedigrees who work for well-known law firms are less likely to risk their reputations on political shenanigans.