The minister of (Supreme Federal Court) classified as “cowards and treacherous” the actions that led to the application of sanctions by the US government to him. It was the magistrate’s first public demonstration after the punishment announced by the White House.
Moraes said there was “homeland betrayal” and directed his reaction mainly to the deputy (PL-SP), who articulated with members of the US government the framework of the minister, who provides for financial blocks. The magistrate did not mention the parliamentarian nominally.
“They are at large and hidden outside the national territory. They did not have the courage to continue in the national territory,” Moraes said at the opening of the semester of the judiciary, this Friday (1st).
During a speech of just over 30 minutes, the rapporteur of the 2022 coup plot said that the penal actions of four nuclei of the PGR (Attorney General of the Republic) complaint will be judged later this year.
There was already an expectation that the action regarding the central nucleus, which includes former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL), was based on September. This Friday, the rapporteur confirmed the perspective, adding that the other nuclei should also be tried in 2025.
The minister cited “hostile acts, liars” and said there is evidence of illicit conduct practiced by Eduardo Bolsonaro and his allies. The Supreme Court has an open inquiry to investigate the deputy’s performance.
The minister’s wife, Viviane Barci de Moraes also accompanied the session, and was sitting in the first row of the plenary.
At the end of the session, Moraes was embraced and greeted by his colleagues.
Moraes compared the method of acting of Bolsonarists to that of militias. The minister said that these agents are inducing, instigating and assisting the practice of harmful conduct against Brazilian society, public authorities, STF ministers and magistrate wives, citing those of Gilmar Mendes and, according to him, there is no limits on the boldness and cowardice of this criminal organization that will be fully held responsible. “
“In an attitude usually affects militiamen of the underworld of crime that attack the authorities and attack the relatives of the authorities, these conduct of this criminal organization, these conduct characterizes clear and expressed executory acts of betrayal to Brazil and blatant confessions of the practice of criminal acts.”
The minister also stated that this “militia criminal organization” is wrong to expect institutional weakness or democratic weakness, and that Brazilian institutions are strong and solid, as well as the members of the Supreme, “forged in the purest democratic spirit.”
“They think they are dealing with people from their lap, who are also dealing with militia, but they are not. They are dealing with ministers of the Supreme Court. This criminal organization is wrong by expecting that the permanence and continuity of this clumsy can, somehow, can generate a cowardly surrender of the Brazilian constituted powers,” he said.
Regarding the punishments announced by the Donald Trump government, Moraes said that both he and the court will ignore them.
“The Supreme Court will ignore the sanctions applied. This rapporteur will ignore the sanctions that have been applied and continue working as it has been doing, both in plenary and first class, always in a collegiate way, unlike lies, untruths, and misinformation,” he said.
The minister stated that the US performance has the same “scammer modus operandi” of camps in front of the barracks, invasion in the Praça dos Three Powers for the call of GLO (Law of Guarantee of Law and Order) and the Armed Forces, and thus generating a national commotion for a possibility of coup.
In the case of actions with representatives of the Trump administration, the encouragement of taxation to Brazil would be encouraging the economic crisis, which generates the social crisis and then the political crisis to once again social instability and the possibility of a new attack.
“This generation of political and social pressure against the judiciary and legislature has clearly the unlawful purpose of favoring personal interests. And I say coercion against the Legislature as well, one of the Brazilians, investigated and fugitive, recently, this week, directed direct threats to the presidents of, Deputy Hugo Mota, and the Federal Senate, Senator Davi Alcolumbre,” he said.
In the case of the Senate, Moraes also cited the pressure to open impeachment procedures for court ministers.
The minister, of the (Supreme Federal Court), resumed the activities of the Court on Friday (1st) with a displeasure to the minister, targeted by sanctions from the government.
He stated that the Court’s performance preserved democracy and that the process of the 2022 coup plot investigates various crimes against the Democratic Rule of Law and is conducted with due process and transparency.
“The brand of the Brazilian judiciary, from the first degree to the Federal Supreme Court, is independence and impartiality. All defendants will be tried based on the evidence produced, without any kind of interference, come from where it comes,” he said
The president of the Court gave a speech in reopening work for the semester. This is the magistrate’s first demonstration in the Plenary after the Donald Trump government announced last Wednesday (30). The Supreme Court had previously published a note on behalf of the court in defense of the autonomy of Brazilian justice.
“Our role is to prevent the back to the past,” Barroso said, citing attacks on institutions since 2019, the first year of the (PL) government.
“Criminal actions have been conducted with due process of law, transparency, public sessions accompanied by lawyers, the press. There are confessions, hearing, videos, texts and other evidence. The mark of the judiciary, from the first degree to the STF is independence and impartial action,” he said.
The ministers and are not plenary.
The minister listed Trump measures to the pressure of technology companies against the court, which in recent trial defined the liability of platforms for the publication of content considered illegal or harmful.
According to Gilmar, the so -called Big Techs make “powerful lobbies” and try to “bend the Brazilian court and the government to their whims and their economic interests.” “This STF does not double the intimidation,” he said.
