If you care about democracy and justice, then you should celebrate what three Brazilian judges did on Wednesday.

Because two of three (as of my writing, one judge hasn’t yet revealed his ruling) court judges ruled against former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s appeal to have a corruption conviction overturned. The decision means that unless a higher appeals court rules in his favor, Lula will be ineligible to run for president in October’s election.