The target of sanctions from the US and in open disagreement with his colleague, the minister arrived who led in the (Supreme Court) with his power reaffirmed by the public defense, and also behind the scenes of most members of the Court.
The last day of judgment of the former president (PL) by, on Thursday (11), was filled with unpleasant work of Moraes as rapporteur of the process and also of other investigations related to undemocratic acts.
Afterwards, he questioned Moraes’s rapporteur in the case and the legitimacy of the STF itself to judge the action, the president of the Court, and the dean, decided to attend the final session that.
Internally, the ministers had been demonstrating that it was necessary to signal clearly that the court offered institutional support to the trial.
In addition to internal differences and the mobilization with the government, the governor of, (Republicans), on September 7, in which he called the minister dictator and tyrant.
Barroso himself, who has a long relationship of friendship with Fux, sat next to Moraes for part of the session and made one.
Being president of the Supreme Court, Barroso does not integrate any of the two classes of the Court while occupying the post and therefore did not vote in the Bolsonaro process. He was there to say that Moraes has developed a “Herculean work” over the years “in the preparation of this paradigmatic judgment, watershed in the history of Brazil.”
“I want to repeat here once again: it was a public, transparent, due process, based on the most diverse proofs: videos, texts, messages, confessions,” said Barroso.
“Contrary understandings are part of life, but only the deep ignorance of the facts or a cool motivation of reality will find in this judgment some kind of.”
who also made a displeasure to his colleague at the end of the trial. The minister has been a strong ally of the rapporteur in court.
He said Moraes “has paid unjust prices” for his action in processes on undemocratic acts. “Unjust not for him. Unjust for his family. Today, I was talking to the minister [Cristiano] Zanin, that I’m a father – who, mother, grandfather, uncle, we are all. Nothing bothers us more than our family paying prices that do not belong to it, “he said.
and prevented from entering the US, as well as its relatives.
Moraes also imposes the freezing of assets that the minister has in the United States and prohibits US financial entities from doing dollar operations with a sanctioned person.
During the trial, Moraes also defended himself. “It is important to take advantage to emphasize another constant misinformation that I would be rapporteur for the process of attempting murder against myself,” Moraes said, arguing that the process is about attacks on institutions.
Despite the speeches of the ministers, attitudes of Moraes during the trial left members of the defendants’ defendants irritated.
For example, from Bolsonaro attacks to Moraes himself and the STF caused criticism from the lawyers in reserved conversations.
In addition, those during the trial – which was classified by lawyers as an inappropriate informal climate of relaxation while condemning defendants – also motivated complaints.
(Brazilian Bar Association) A demonstration on the attitudes of the members of the First Class.
A wing of court ministers also considered, reserved for the Sheetthe joking tone and indirect references over the long vote of Fux as disrespectful and outside the court’s liturgy.
Moraes has been a STF minister since 2017, but began to be related to pockets in 2019, when he controlled the rapporteur of, during the presidency of Minister Dias Toffoli.
Before joining the Court, Moraes was a prosecutor of the São Paulo Public Prosecution Service and ascended in his career occupying several prominent areas of the administrations of São Paulo politicians.
As Secretary of Public Security of São Paulo, in 2016, he was ahead of a sensitive question for the then vice president (MDB): o.
He acted that there were police resources and discretion in the action that resulted in the arrest of the hacker. When Temer became president, the secretary was appointed Minister of Justice, already with the ambition to take a place in the Supreme Court.
It was nominated for a chair in 2017, after.
The fake news survey was the first investigation used as a umbrella to keep the rapporteur of Moraes the cases related to suspicions involving attacks on institutions and dissemination of fraudulent information-which avoided the distribution of these processes among all ministers by raffle.
Currently, in addition to research on fake news, Moraes has more “umbrella surveys” in his hands: the das and the second inquiry with that name, as the first of them was filed in 2021).
