The companies Rumble and Trump Media, which are suing Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), in the United States Federal Court, asked to notify the Brazilian magistrate by email. The petition sent to the Florida Court this Monday, 2, is an attempt to unblock the complaint that Moraes is the target of for allegedly issuing “secret censorship orders” against the video platform.
The process has been at a standstill since August 2025, when a subpoena against Moraes was sent to the Superior Court of Justice (STJ). In October last year, the PGR issued an opinion recommending the rejection of the notification.
When contacted by the STF, Moraes did not respond. During the trial of the coup d’état action in the STF, the minister stated that “digital or foreign militias” would not intimidate their actions in the Court. “The specialty of these digital militias is the production of fake news to try to intimidate the Judiciary. They have not realized that, if they have not intimidated the Judiciary until now, they will not intimidate, whether with digital or foreign militias, because Brazil is a sovereign and independent country”, stated Moraes in March 2025, during the trial of receiving the PGR complaint.
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According to the petition, Moraes may be notified in the process via the STF’s institutional email for having used this channel to notify Rumble of content removal orders.
“Having used email to try to assert extraterritorial jurisdiction, the defendant now cannot deny that email provides him with effective notice,” argues lawyer Martin de Luca, who represents the plaintiff companies in the case.
Since February 2025, Moraes has been the target of a civil action in the Federal Court of Florida for alleged censorship and violation of American sovereignty.
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Rumble is a video platform that works similarly to YouTube. The network emerged with the proposal to be “immune to cancel culture” and began to house content producers restricted on other networks, such as commentators Paulo Figueiredo, Rodrigo Constantino and Bruno Aiub, known as Monark. The platform failed to comply with Brazilian court orders and did not appoint a legal representative in the country. For these reasons, it was banned from operating in the national territory.
Linked to United States President Donald Trump, Trump Media manages the Truth Social network. Like Rumble, Truth proposes more lenient guidelines for content moderation and began to shelter extremists. Since January 2025, when he returned to the presidency of the United States, Trump has used the platform to make official administration announcements.
Rumble and Trump Media are calling for Moraes to be held accountable for issuing “secret extraterritorial censorship orders.” The authors ask the judge in the case to recognize Moraes’ orders to remove content and accounts as unenforceable in American territory, under the protection of the First Amendment to the Country’s Constitution, which guarantees the right to expression in more flexible terms than Brazilian legislation.
