The (Federal Supreme Court), which have been including from the Court’s targets.
While part of this exposure is read in the context of, others have greater potential to wear out the image of the court.
Experts consulted by Sheet They do different analyzes on the subject, but point out that, to some extent, the Supreme has become a protagonist not because it made that decision, but was turned into the target of the far right.
Remember the episodes.
Highlight in the international press
Only last April, the Supreme was the subject of two texts by the British magazine The Economist, both with a negative tone for the court.
One of them, titled, brings harsh criticism to the court, stating that their judges have “excessive power.” In the end, the magazine suggests that the Supreme Court should contain and that the judgment of the former president should be done by the plenary, not by the first class, to “restore his image of impartiality.”
Days later, in an uncommon movement, the president of the court, Luís Roberto Barroso, signed one and even states that the focus of the text corresponds “more to the narrative of those who tried the coup d’état than to the real fact that Brazil lives a full democracy.”
The magazine brings as protagonist the minister-which was also featured in April of a long report of the American magazine.
No, whose focus is Moraes, one of the highlighting cases is his clash with Musk, which culminated in the X -suspension last year. Because of the episode, the minister had also been widely portrayed in reports around the world.
Last year’s newspaper report questioned, for example, “Is the supreme saving or threatening democracy?”
In April, the court of Spain decided by the Lula government (PT). He is the target of two Supreme arrest warrants and suspected of crimes against democracy and corruption of minors.
It was argued that the request had political motivation and that there is no bilateral agreement between the two countries allowing extradition in this type of situation. That of Spain.
In response to the Spanish negative, Moraes decided to suspend the extradition of Bulgarian Vasil Georgiev Vasilev, accused of drug trafficking, alleging lack of reciprocity in the country – in.
Also at the beginning of last year, still under the administration of Joe Biden, which could not extradite the pocket -based influencer Allan dos Santos for offenses that Americans see as opinion crimes.
Allan dos Santos has been considered a fugitive by the Brazilian justice since he had the ordered pre -trial detention in 2021 as part of the fake news inquiry. Since then, Moraes has been determining the suspension of the new profiles created by him.
Social media
Over the past few years, the Court, in motion by Minister Alexandre de Moraes, has given harsh decisions and orders to platforms, usually involving suspension of profiles, content removal and data delivery, under penalty of high fines.
The court has also active to regulate networks by judging the constitutionality of the Internet Marco Civil Marco.
But the episode that made the image of Mores – and from the court – gaining prominence abroad was his clash with businessman Elon Musk, owner of X (former Twitter), which culminated in the suspension of the platform in Brazil.
In the arm wrestling, Moraes, who was backed by other ministers, eventually won. Musk indicated a legal representative in Brazil and fulfilled the orders. Nevertheless, the episode served to throw light to the minister’s performance and also generated criticism and questions.
After the clash with Musk, Moraes also became the target of republicans in the United States, moving aligned with pocket actors.
In addition, his decisions involving Allan dos Santos’s account are at the center of a judicial clash involving the Rumble video platform, which is popular on the right, and US President’s media company ,.
Both. The platforms claim that recent orders violate his sovereignty, the American Constitution and the country’s laws.
The federal deputy (PL-SP), son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, and is in the United States, where he has made a kind of.
