The government repeated on Thursday (31) the allegations that led to the sanction of the minister, the (Federal Supreme Court),
Thomas Pigott, a state department’s deputy spokesman, which is equivalent to the US Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Moraes is an “activist judge” and repeated that the measure is a warning.
“As the secretary [Marco] Rubio declared in X, our actions are a warning to those who are trampling the fundamental rights of their citizens: Judicial Togas cannot protect them, “he said.
Pigott said he would not anticipate future actions or new sanctions that the US could take against Brazilian authorities after being asked about it.
The possibility that other authorities will be sanctioned is not discarded by the US government. (PL) Allies in the US, for example, have already talked about chances that ministers and also be framed in the sanctions of the OFAC (Foreign Asset Control Office).
For now, this decision is not made. The deputy (PL-SP) says that he asked the government not to include the magistrates, but he the former presidenter of young Pan Paulo Figueiredo maintains the pressure.
At X (former Twitter), Figueiredo provoked Gilmar Mendes. The minister made a publication defending his fellow sanctions. Figueiredo commented, saying, “Thanks, it makes life easier to sanction it when there is such an explicit statement of support-a lawyer in the magnitsky law itself.” The comment was replicated by Eduardo on social networks.
The American government thesis to sanction Moraes is that he committed human rights abuses.
“Moraes is an activist judge who abused his authority by engaging in a targeted and politically motivated effort to silence political critics by issuing secret orders, forcing online platforms, including US social media companies, banning individual accounts for posting protected speeches,” Pigott said Thursday.
He also stated that Moraes determined “unfair arrests” before judgments.
American Democrats parliamentarians reacted to the Trump government’s initiative. Senators Elizabeth Warren, from Massachusetts, member of the Senate Banks, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, through which Treasury decisions pass, and Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire, senior member of the house’s Foreign Relations Committee, classified the action as absurd.
“It is absurd that the Trump government has just sanctioned an acting minister of the Brazilian Supreme Court of Brazil using the US financial sanctions program, which was created to deal with ‘serious human rights violations’ around the world,” they said in a statement.
“This is not just an abuse of an essential US foreign policy tool: it is an attack aimed at an STF minister who currently conducts the trial of a former president accused of plotting a blow to undermine the results of a democratic election in Brazil,” they said.
They also reiterated that the action adds to, which can lead Americans to pay more for products such as coffee and beans.
