STF Minister is defined as a judge who ‘inspires love and hatred’, as well as one of the ‘greatest and most controversial Brazilian celebrities, who leads the former president’s’ historical’ trial
Amid the trial of the coup plot, the British newspaper The Guardian published a profile of the minister of the Federal Supreme Court (). He is defined as a judge who “inspires love and hatred”, as well as one of the “greatest and most controversial celebrities” Brazilian, who leads the former president’s “historical” judgment (PL).
The newspaper points out that the performance of the “muscular” judge since the election of the former president is what made him a “hero for the progressives” and a “hated figure for the devotees of Bolsonaro.” The Guardian list that he has conducted a series of investigations related to the former president and his allies and blocked the right-wing activist profiles on social networks over the last few years.
About more recent events, the newspaper uses the fake news inquiry to show that “even some progressives are concerned that Moraes may have gone beyond their constitutional authority at their crusade to defend democracy.” “The inquiry was opened six years ago and is not yet clear when investigations will be completed or who exactly was targeted and for what reason,” he says.
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The text draws Moraes’s academic and professional trajectory until becoming Minister of Justice of Michel Temer (MDB), in 2016 excerpts mention the “enviable curriculum” and “workaholic” profile and remember that he wrote a book on constitutional law “which sold hundreds of thousands of copies”.
“Today, many left -wing Brazilians exalt Moraes as the savior of the fifth largest democracy in the world. But during his university days, Moraes was a right -wing man,” says the publication, recalling the interview of a friend from Moraes to Le Monde in 2023. Floriano de Azevedo Marques Neto said “the last thing he would have in the room would be a Che (Guevara) poster!”
To set the tone of the dichotomy about the image of the STF minister, the newspaper mentions that billionaire Elon Musk has already referred to him as “an evil dictator cosplaying a judge” and tells the story of butcher Adauto Gomes Nascimento, from Belém (PA), who tattooed Moraes’s face in his leg.
“If tattooing the face of a Supreme Court judge in the leg it seems like a peculiar decision, Brazil’s exceptional political scenario helps to explain the choice,” says the newspaper.
*With information from Estadão Content
Posted by Carol Santos
