The bet of allies in () in the United States is that President Donald Trump’s upcoming retaliation for what he sees as “witch hunt” against the former president is the application of a financial sanction to the minister, (Federal Supreme Court).
This punishment would be guaranteed through the so -called Magnitsky Law, to which the pockets have referred for months. Against Moraes by Bolsonaro’s allies, the measure was the subject of questions within the Donald Trump government.
The imbroglio turned around the legal basis that would be used to justify the application of the law. Members of the American Treasury evaluated, around May, that the argument was not yet enough to implement punishment.
On the side of the State Department, there was also the evaluation of advisors that the measure could be harmful to the relationship with Brazil.
The impasse would also have led Trump advisers to consider in Moraes based at the IEEPA (International Emergency Economic Powers Act), a law used by Trump in February to punish the president of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan.
According to a scholarship and someone else along with the negotiations around the Brazilian case, however, the questions would have been overcome and the application of the magnitsky law against Moraes would now be a matter of time. Bolsonaro’s allies say it can come out in the short term.
An ally of Trump with access to the White House said he saw at least two versions of a decree determining punishment.
Last Friday (18), in the face of Moraes’s decision to determine the use of electronic anklet by Bolsonaro, the Trump government decided to ban the entry of Moraes and “its court allies” in the United States.
According to Sheet He learned, Luiz Fux, André Mendonça and Kassio Nunes Marques – the last two nominated by Bolsonaro to the court.
The Attorney General of the Republic, was also encompassed in the restriction of visas, according to people who participated in the discussion.
A sanction by the magnitsky law would be a step further because it involves financial punishments.
The legislation was created in Barack Obama management and allows the unilateral application of punishments to foreigners accused of severe corruption or systematic human rights violations.
The allegation of the federal deputy (PL-SP) and the former presenter of the young Pan Paulo Figueiredo is that Moraes committed violations by giving orders that, for them and the US government, censor the freedom of expression of US citizens and companies.
Through this law, sanctions from an organ of the US Treasury Secretariat, which include the blockade of goods on American soil, the freezing of accounts and the ban on dollar transactions with any financial institution in the United States.
There is no need for judicial proceedings – a basis for a decision of the Executive based on reports or documents from international organizations, and testimonies.
In June, American deputy Chris Smith sent a letter to Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, asking the government to act quickly to apply sanctions to Moraes.
Smith, Republican, is co -president of the Human Rights Commission of the House of House and was already an advocate for the application of punishments to the magistrate. “Now, in the face of repeated and serious human rights violations committed by Alexandre de Moraes, we have no choice but to impose sanctions under global magnitsky law. This is not a sanction against Brazil, but a clear act of solidarity with the Brazilian people,” Smith said in a statement about the reason for defending sanctions.
For now, in addition to the revocation of STF ministers’ visas, Trump has adopted a more drastic measure and threatened Brazil with 50% tariffs on imported products, scheduled to be implemented on August 1.
