In a welcome speech to , the minister stated this Tuesday (11) that the Second Panel of the (Supreme Federal Court) built a history of safeguarding freedoms. The speech was made at the beginning of Fux’s first session at the collegiate, after he asked to leave the First Panel, responsible for the trials of the 2022 coup plot.
“The Second Panel has consolidated itself as a judicial body faithfully committed to the preservation of individual guarantees against the criminal authoritarianism cunningly forged in the height of Operation Lava Jato”, said the dean of the court.
“For this reason, the recovery of the institutional memory of this collegiate is critical to the preservation of democratic values achieved through historical struggles against arbitrary rule. In truth, the decisions handed down by this body in the most acute period of erosion of post-1988 criminal procedural guarantees transcend their temporal contingency to crystallize as legitimate antidotes of democratic resistance”, he continued.
Fux was one of the Supreme Court ministers most aligned with the Lava Jato task force. Gilmar, one of the most critical. The two clashed in the Supreme Court last month, after the trial of the coup plot.
As the Mônica Bergamo column revealed, the dean told his colleague that he is a ‘pitiful figure’ and that he needs therapy to overcome trauma. “See if you can get therapy to get rid of Lava Jato,” said the minister;
