Federal Deputy Gleisi Hoffmann (PR), PT’s national president, criticized what he called the “pocket articulation” to approve the Bill “at Censor Shores Act” Bill in the United States. If it becomes law, the provision may, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), in the US country.
In the X (former Twitter), Gleisi called the allies of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), who, “surrender”, and their movement of “crime of Lesa-Patria”.
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“The ineligible, their relatives and fugitives of Brazilian justice are challenging, once again, Brazilian institutions and showing who they really serve: to a foreign country,” he wrote the parliamentarian.
After approval on Wednesday, 26, of the Judicial Committee of the House of Representatives of the United States, the proposal goes to vote in the Plenary of the House. The committee has attributions similar to the Constitution and Justice Commission (CCJ) of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies.
The name of Moraes is not mentioned in the text of the proposal, but the authors, the Republican deputies María Elvira Salazar and Darrell Issa, have directly criticized Moraes’ decisions and referred to him as a “applicator of censorship”.
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The proposal wants to prevent the entry into the United States or to impose the deportation of foreign authorities pointed out as actors against the freedom of expression of US citizens. To become law, she needs to go through the Plenary of the Chamber of Representatives, the Senate and then be sanctioned by the White House. The STF did not comment on the project.
The presentation of “No Censorship on Our Shores Act” occurred after a lobby made by federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP) and Bolsonarist blogger Paulo Figueiredo, grandson of former Brazilian president João Batista Figueiredo, who ruled in the military period. Paul lives in the United States and is on the run of Brazilian justice.
The background of the bill is the clash between Minister Alexandre de Moraes and Billionaire Elon Musk’s X, which involved blocking the platform in Brazil in September last year. More recently,, video publication network.
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By decisions about Rumble, Moraes is targeted in the American court of a joint action between the platform and Trump Media, Donald Trump’s company. They accuse the magistrate of violating American sovereignty by ordering the suspension of the profile of blogger Allan dos Santos, also a fugitive and resident in the United States.
The US Department of the United States (equivalent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) criticized on Wednesday the blockade of US social networks throughout Brazil, classifying decisions as “censorship.” The agency stated that the block is “incompatible with democratic values.” The publication was shared by the US embassy in Brazil.
In response, Itamaraty said in a statement that the Brazilian government received the American demonstration “with surprise” and that “firmly rejects any attempt to politicize court decisions.”
