It said it on Wednesday (26) that the government distorts the meaning of the minister’s orders, (Supreme Federal Court), and rejects the attempt to politicize judicial decisions.
“The Brazilian government firmly rejects any attempt to politicize judicial decisions and emphasizes the importance of respecting the republican principle of independence of powers, contemplated in the Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement said.
The statement states that the Brazilian government was caught by surprise by the state department’s note, its equivalent body in the country, “regarding legal action filed by private companies that country to exempt themselves from the fulfillment of decisions of the Brazilian Supreme Court.”
The statement occurs in response to the Western Hemisphere office of the department that makes implicit reference to the case of Rumble against Moraes.
“Respect for sovereignty is a two -way road with all US partners, including Brazil,” wrote the profile of the state department’s Western Hemisphere office. “Blocking access to information and imposing fines on US -based companies for refusing to censor people living in the United States is incompatible with democratic values, including freedom of expression.”
“The statement of the State Department distorts the meaning of the decisions of the Federal Supreme Court, whose effects are intended to ensure the application, in the national territory, of the relevant Brazilian law, including the requirement of the constitution of legal representatives to all companies operating in Brazil,” said Itamaraty.
The folder also says that freedom of expression must be exercised in Brazil “in line” with “the other legal precepts in force, especially those of a criminal nature”.
Then he mentions that the Brazilian state and the institutions were the target of “undemocratic orchestration”. “The facts involving the attempted coup against popular sovereignty, after the 2022 presidential elections, are the subject of action ongoing in the Brazilian judiciary,” says the note.
Supreme ministers have minimized actions taken on American soil, provided that the minister’s orders are declared illegal.
Under reserve, magistrates and advisors close to them say that there is no significant impact on the Supreme routine and deny major concerns about the movements of the US President, Allies and Bolsonarists in the country.
Priority target of the offensive, Moraes tells interlocutors that he does not have a habit of traveling to the US, has no real estate or equity in the country and, therefore, would not be giving much importance to measures because it is not affected by them.
The other magistrates maintain similar line. So far, they follow the news, but without mobilizing internally to ask for an institutional defense or response position.
Also on Tuesday (25), before the publication of the US State Department, the dean of the Supreme, said in conversation with journalists to be extravagant the presentation of a lawsuit against Moraes in an American court, but without great impact.
“It is very extravagant a company that suffers some sort of sanction here to take action against the judge who took the measure. The way to challenge judicial decisions is to challenge before the court itself that is competent,” he said.
Gilmar said the Supreme himself has already lived other moments of confrontation and this has not changed the position of the court.
“We have seen other actions like this and this does not change anything. For those who want and are able to work in Brazil, to provide service in Brazil, that the Brazilian law is applied, that is only what we are discussing. In this case, there was a court order that was not fulfilled,” he said.
In a social network post, the president of the PT, federal deputy for Paraná Gleisi Hoffmann, related the state department’s post with management made by Deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP) in the United States. And criticized “subservience” to Americans.
“It is shameful the appeal of the ineligible and their parent to the government and the US judiciary against Minister Alexandre de Moraes. There has never been so much subservience to a foreign country or so much lie against the representative of an institution in Brazil. Those who act only demonstrate despair in the face of judgment and the punishments that are coming to their serious crimes,” Gleisi wrote.
“It was here in Brazil that Bolsonaro and his gang have plotted a blow and this is where they will have to pay. Even delivery as they need to understand that Brazil is a sovereign country. And it would only be if they had been successful in their blow. It is without amnesty and without external interference,” he added.
Last Friday (21), Moraes had it suspended throughout the national territory. The decision was given the same week that the minister became the target of the Sheet.
The platform’s CEO, Chris Pavlovski, also made a series of posts over the last few days, with Moraes as a focus.
In the case of the X (former Twitter), the platform last year, until the entrepreneur’s social network pay the fines in the amount of R $ 28.6 million that were applied, comply with Moraes’s decisions and appoint a legal representative in Brazil.
At the time, Moraes was unanimously endorsed by the first class, even a board who will judge the decision on Rumble after Carnival. The tendency is for the scenario to repeat itself and the magistrates support Moraes’s position once again.
