Impeachment partly served to shield the political class from corruption prosecution

Evidence

This was more damning than anything in Lula’s conversation with Dilma, but this phone call didn’t leak until after the impeachment vote. Senator Jucá’s gambit indicated that parts of the political class saw impeachment as a desperate attempt to stop Lava Jato from consuming them. They could offer Dilma as a bode expiatório, or sacrificial lamb, and see if it worked. What did they have to lose? — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 658

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Pro-impeachment lawmakers’ slogan combined sexism with a corruption-probe reference — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 667; The anti-corruption crusade itself functioned as political corruption. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 726