The ministers of the Federal Supreme Court decided not to comment on () and (PL-SP).
In exchange for messages in June, Bolsonaro reported his son that he had talked to members of the. In the agendas of the ministers, there are no records of recent meetings with the former president.
The references of the former president and the federal deputy to the magistrates appear in an investigation of the Federal Police presented on Wednesday (20), which points to indications that the two tried to obstruct the trial of the scammer, currently underway at the Court.
A Sheet He sought the offices of the 11 ministers and also the STF’s own communication advisory. The report asked if they had meetings or contacts with Bolsonaro or their allies and interlocutors, where and for what purpose.
The court replied that it will not comment on the case, which is in progress. In notes, the ministers, and stated that they would not speak either. The others did not respond.
In the Federal Police report, the mentions stand out to Gilmar and Mendonça.
On June 27, after receiving material from her son Eduardo that the PF could not recover, Bolsonaro said the content should not be shared by him on social networks, asked him to forget “any criticism of Gilmar” and said he had “talked to some of the STF” and that “everyone or almost everyone shows concern for sanctions.”
Days later, on July 9, the president of, against Brazil.
Gilmar maintains dialogue with Bolsonarist core members, who even tried to organize a meeting of the former president with the minister, but were unsuccessful.
Mendonça, in turn, is cited in the report in a context in which the PF points out “coordinated action” between Eduardo, Jair Bolsonaro and the defense of Filipe Martins, former advisor to international affairs of the former president and also defendant in the case of the scammer plot, with the aim of causing “procedural turmoil”.
On July 10, Jeffrey Chiquini, Martins’s lawyer, presented a writ of mandamus in the Supreme Court in which he questioned the minister’s performance in the process, contested the accelerated progress, in his view, of investigations regarding the coup plot and criticized the magistrate’s veto to the defendant’s defense witness testimonials.
In the STF’s electronic draw, the action was distributed to Mendonça, which encouraged the Bolsonarist group, as the minister is considered aligned with the former president and is also critical of the prevailing view of the court about 8 January as an attempt to coup.
Two days after Chiquini’s action, Eduardo sent messages to his father who said they had the “opportunity to change the rapporteur of the scammer plot”, which is from Moraes. “Mendonça may be ahead of questions [pode assumir as ações] that will go to the plenary. Giant victory today. We need Mendonça to give this injunction, “explained the messages, whose authorship to PF could not track.
Eduardo then told Bolsonaro that if Mendonça admitted the writ of mandamus, Moraes would be as rapporteur of the lawsuits in the first class of the Supreme Court, and the former Justice Minister of the Government of his father would take over the post in the plenary.
“Lawyer Jeffrey Chiquini calls for an injunction to cancel hearing that will be on Monday and to suspend process of the coup plot until the regimental interlocutory appeals that raises nullity,” he added.
For the PF, the dialogue shows that the Bolsonaros and the defense of Martins acted to subvert the logic of the judgment in the Supreme Court. The report points out that the investigation did not identify evidence that Mendonça knew of the intentions of the investigated. The case has not yet been analyzed by the minister.
Mendonça has already signaled to people close to the case law of the Supreme Court shows that writ of mandamus cannot be used to overthrow the decision of another minister and, therefore, considers the request of the defense of Martins legally unfeasible.
For Thiago Bottino, professor at FGV Law Rio, any contact of STF ministers with Bolsonaro or his allies would be “absolutely inappropriate, even though the interlocutor does not integrate the first class, where the trial” of the coup plot occurs.
“A minister should neither manifest nor publicly about a case pending judgment in the court he integrates. Especially about the effect of external pressures made on the Supreme Court, allegedly caused by one of the accused to be tried,” says Bottino.
In addition to Gilmar and Mendonça, only Moraes is quoted among the other Supreme Ministers in the report. For the PF, Eduardo and Jair Bolsonaro acted coordinably, with the support of figures such as the pastor, who was included in the inquiry, and the lawyer, who represents Trump Media Group and Rumble Video Platform in the US, to seek sanctions against the minister, coerce the Brazilian judiciary and prevent possible criminal conviction of Bolsonaro.
They were indicted and may be denounced by (Attorney General’s Office) for coercion crimes in the course of the process and violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law.
If convicted in the case of the coup plot, it may, based on the times provided by law, receive a minimum penalty of 12 and a half to a maximum of 43 years in prison.
In the criminal action on the coup plot, he is accused of armed criminal organization, violent abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, coup, qualified damage and deterioration of listed heritage.
