Elected president and vice-president of the (Superior Court of Justice) for the 2026-2028 biennium, and Mauro Campbell Marques, respectively, enjoy international conventions without disbursement of expenses. They will take office in August.
Salomão presides over the Editorial Board for events with judges and authorities from the three Powers. The publication preserves the confidentiality of those who finance the caravans.
current national magistrate, he has accompanied magistrates and lawyers who traveled abroad with expenses paid, including those of family members.
He missed a trial considered preferential by the president of , Edson Fachin. In a video, recorded during the trip to two countries in Europe, he claimed academic commitment.
The image of , when former presidents Francisco Falcão and João Otávio de Noronha exchanged provocations in court.
When he was magistrate, Falcão tried to reduce trips abroad. As president, he was absent for a total of four and a half months. He visited ten countries, some more than once.
Appointed to be the next national inspector of Justice, Benedito Gonçalves tasted the Macallan whiskey offered by in London, in the company of other guests, including the .
The proximity to the former banker created the image of the Master Boys in the STJ (a reference to the Chicago Boys, ultra-liberal Chilean economists trained in Chicago during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet).
In 2012, in a public civil action reported by Gonçalves, the STJ excluded the then federal deputy José Guimarães (PT-CE), current minister of Institutional Relations, from the improbity action in the “case of dollars in underwear”.
José Adalberto Vieira, then the parliamentarian’s advisor, had been arrested at Congonhas airport when trying to board a flight to Fortaleza with R$209,000 in a suitcase and US$100,500
The parliamentarian’s office reported, at the time, that the investigation had been ongoing for years without finding “any irregularities committed by the deputy”.
Raul Araújo will be the next general director of the National School for Training and Improvement of Magistrates (Enfam). He took over the internal affairs department of the Federal Court saying that the defense of the federal judiciary would be the “guideline of his activities”.
At Enfam, it will have reduced influence on magistrates’ manifestations.
In 2022, the former dean of the (Supreme Federal Court) faced an institutional setback when Araújo, then at the TSE, served Jair Bolsonaro’s lawyers and banned political demonstrations at the Lollapalooza festival.
The president of the STJ, Herman Benjamin, saw the election as “a strong demonstration of the unity of our court”. Excessive generosity, in the face of .
A strong union was the unanimous opening of disciplinary proceedings against the minister, suspected of sexual harassment.
Averse to caravans and convescotes, Benjamin maintained the rule that the court “does not cover expenses for air tickets and daily travel that are not for institutional representation.”
Salomão led the dissent against the CNJ’s attempt to discipline the convescotes.
He should assume the presidency of the STJ at a major event. At his inauguration as magistrate, the presidents of the three Powers were present. Greetings took place at
Solomon had the meeting in the Senate transformed into a session of praise. “It was a meeting to recognize the biography and its history”, flattered Davi Alcolumbre, rapporteur for the nomination.
His performance as national inspector deserved both praise and criticism.
“It was made present through ordinary or extraordinary corrections, including in federal and state courts, something little seen until then”, said Antônio Sérgio Tonet, former attorney general of Justice of Minas Gerais.
For lawyer Airton Florentino de Barros, who is a retired prosecutor, the minister “did not adopt any effective measure against Bankruptcy Court judges who feed the judicial recovery mafia, always appointing the same judicial administrators and experts, invariably with millionaire remuneration”.
“He never opposed the aberration of virtual trials.”
Former OAB president Marcus Vinicius Furtado Coêlho has already said that Salomão “is always attentive and willing to dialogue with lawyers.”
Marcus Vinicius was at the seaside lunch that brought together, in Portugal, Salomão, Gilmar Mendes, the brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista, and Sidney Gonzalez, from FGV Knowledge.
reputation for being strict with Lava Jato judges and Bolsonarian magistrates.
In 2020, Humberto Martins filed a request for action against which he called for demonstrations in favor of Bolsonaro.
In 2022, Salomão ordered extraordinary correction in the Ludmila court, which identified 1,291 cases frozen in the registry office, several of them involving imprisoned defendants. The judge was compulsorily retired by the TJ-MG in 2023.
Salomão ordered an extraordinary correction in the office of federal judge Maria do Carmo Cardoso, from TRF-1, considered the “godmother” of the Bolsonaro family.
This action, however, was insufficient to contain the advance of Bolsonarism in the Minas Gerais Judiciary.
The collaboration between Humberto Martins and João Otávio de Noronha resulted in the creation of TRF-6, based in Belo Horizonte. The court would later be used as Bolsonaro’s electoral platform.
This Friday (17), the president of TRF-6, Vallisney Oliveira, will hand out necklaces and medals to personalities who contributed to the hasty creation of that court.
There were no resources, at the time, to pay energy costs. Among others, João Otávio de Noronha, Humberto Martins, Rodrigo Pacheco and Antônio Anastasia will be honored.
The CNJ was tolerant of the Minas Gerais TJ, which created a fictitious position for former president Gilson Lemes to set up a consulate in Brasília for political contacts with the Bolsonarists.
One of the expectations with the new management is to check the role of the STJ in the face of attempts to review punishments for leaders of the January 8th coup movement.
