The advancement of the bill that reduces sentences for those convicted of the January 8 attacks and the coup plot in the Chamber of Deputies, this week, was a decisive factor in the Trump administration removing Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), his wife Viviane Barci de Moraes and the Lex Institute, linked to the minister’s family, from the list of those sanctioned by the Magnitsky Act, according to American government sources.
A government official told the Globo that the advancement of the text in the Chamber was seen by the US State Department as a step in the right direction that, in the view of Secretary Marco Rubio’s interlocutors, would signal that the supposed situation of lawfare – the name given to the use of the Judiciary as a weapon of political persecution – in Brazil it is improving.
The project is called by members of the American government the “amnesty law”, despite not actually providing for the elimination of penalties.
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Furthermore, members of the Trump administration claim that Moraes and his wife remaining on the sanctioned list would be inconsistent with the interests of United States foreign policy.
