[Trembolon]

You are lying, Alexandre de Moraes used illicit instruments and acted against the Brazilian constitution, not just once, but multiple times

he no longer followed the constitution even before January 8

an example is the infamous fake news inquiry, in which he is the judge, defendant and accuser, this is not normal in a democracy.

As a supreme court judge, he has unlimited powers and has abused it, and despite not being the only judge in the country, he concentrates everything related to Bolsonaro to himself.

And under Brazilian law, he is an electoral judge and a supreme court judge at the same time, he takes advantage of this to concentrate power

Don't believe what the person above says, he's probably left-wing and supports the illegalities of the Brazilian supreme court.

[guiraldelli]

> You are lying, Alexandre de Moraes used illicit instruments and acted against the Brazilian constitution, not just once, but multiple times > > he no longer followed the constitution even before January 8

Would you please provide references for us that don't know this background?

> As a supreme court judge, he has unlimited powers and has abused it, and despite not being the only judge in the country, he concentrates everything related to Bolsonaro to himself.

That is not how it works.

I won't even get into the separation of the "Three Powers" (legislative, executive and judiciary): he shares "the power" with other 10 supreme-court judges [1], and he is not even the president of it!

Therefore, your comment seems off.

> Don't believe what the person above says, he's probably left-wing and supports the illegalities of the Brazilian supreme court.

That is an unfounded _ad hominem_ attack.

But let us present some facts:

* De Moraes is known for his conservative, and not left-wing, positions [2]; as a matter of fact, on Wikipedia it is written "Alexandre de Moraes sent armoured vehicles to suppress left-wing demonstrations."

* opening the tweet's author page [3], I get suggestions of Twitter of some similar authors, such as Tucker Carson, Robert Kennedy Jr. and Libs of TikTok; a quick scan of them show they are all conservative sources;

* opening the other tweets of the author [3], it is clear he is a conservative, defender of Donald Trump; let us remember that Donald Trump is an ally of Bolsonaro.

It is not difficult to put it all together and see those "files" should be taken with A LOT OF GRAIN OF SALT, to put it politely.

Also, it is widely known that Bolsonaro wasn't a great president, and that his supporters (and himself) intensively attack De Moraes.

Besides, what a bizarre situation: Brazil got two presidents impeached, and they did not make such a steer on the legal decision. But Bolsonaro is being investigated for his attempted coup d’etat, and instead of collaborating with the Justice system, he is attacking a Supreme Court's judge. That, itself, raises a lot of suspicion on both his attitudes and the news surrounding it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Federal_Court#Current_...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_de_Moraes

[3]: https://twitter.com/shellenberger

[Trembolon]

>That is not how it works.

I won't even get into the separation of the "Three Powers" (legislative, executive and judiciary): he shares "the power" with other 10 supreme-court judges [1], and he is not even the president of it!

Yes, that's how it works, it's a mistake to think that the Brazilian supreme court works like the American one

in the Brazilian supreme court there is an instrument called "monocratic decision", in which a judge of the supreme court can make decisions alone.

Obviously the other judges have to analyze the monocratic decision later, but until they do, the "monocratic decision" is valid.

Alexandre de Moraes has already suspended Telegram in Brazil using "monocratic decision".

Alexandre de Moraes has already threatened to arrest Facebook employees in Brazil, because Facebook did not want to suspend profiles worldwide, it only wanted to suspend them locally.

>De Moraes is known for his conservative, and not left-wing, positions [2]; as a matter of fact, on Wikipedia it is written "Alexandre de Moraes sent armoured vehicles to suppress left-wing demonstrations."

Alexandre de Moraes was conservative, he is currently leftist

He appears on TV defending the fake news bill, he forced Telegram to send a positive message about the fake news bill, he ordered Telegram to delete the company's opinion on the fake news bill and put his opinion on it.

This goes against the Brazilian constitution, but the supreme court has unlimited powers and any order from it will be followed by the Federal Police.

Monark, a Brazilian influencer who currently lives in Miami, was fined R$300,000 (60,000 USD) by Alexandre de Moraes for not believing in electronic voting machines.

This goes against the Brazilian constitution, but the supreme court has unlimited powers and any order from it will be followed by the Federal Police.

> they did not make such a steer on the legal decision.

That's not true. The second impeached president said at the time that it was a coup d'état, and to this day she says it was a coup d'état.

The party of the second impeached president also says it was a coup d'état

Brazilian freedom of expression has always been less than the American one, but De Moraes reduced it even more.

[matheusmoreira]

> Would you please provide references for us that don't know this background?

Of course.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36543423

This is is an informative and well referenced HN comment that captures the nature of this supreme court quite well.

There were some "environmentalprogress" articles submitted to HN about this matter. Not idea how trustworthy that source is but they seemed to be quite thorough. I generally only link major news websites so I'll refrain from linking them.

> I won't even get into the separation of the "Three Powers" (legislative, executive and judiciary)

Doesn't matter. Separation of powers? Ha. This is Brazil.

Legislative? Supreme court legislates, has been legislating for years, decades. They were all voting on the legality of abortion and drugs just months ago. This one judge even went to the actual legislators with "suggestions" on the censorship bill that he personally supported. When he didn't get his way, he used his electoral court judge position to ram it down our throats anyway.

Executive? Our world touring champagne sipping socialist president would not even be in power right now were it not for these guys. They literally released him from the jail he was incarcerated at in order to take out Bolsonaro. It's not even a secret, they literally showboat about it in public. They're quite proud of it all. In fact it's probably Lula's political strategy to ally with the supreme court to impose whatever he wants on the people, just like his Venezuelan dictator buddy.

Judiciary? They can't even keep themselves separate. All this began in 2019 or so when some magazine published some damning article on one of these guys. Thus began the "fake news" inquisition which is still on-going to this day half a decade later. They gave themselves seemingly unlimited powers to censor anyone they want over a magazine article or something. The supreme court itself is the victim, the investigator, the judges and the executors. It's comical.

> he shares "the power" with other 10 supreme-court judges, and he is not even the president of it

Guess whose name is listed as the leader of the aforementioned inquisition which greatly expanded the supreme court's powers.

> But Bolsonaro is being investigated for his attempted coup d’etat, and instead of collaborating with the Justice system, he is attacking a Supreme Court's judge.

[lobocinza]

To give some data:

- 8 of 11 supreme ministers were appointed by the ruling mafia. Recently Lula appointed his lawyer and his minister of justice as supreme court ministers.

- Deltan Dallagnol, one of the prosecutors in the Operation Car Wash which imprisoned Lula and the most voted congressman for the state of Paraná was expelled from congress by the STE (composed in half by STF ministers) via a reinterpretation of a technicality.

Just the tip of the iceberg.

[matheusmoreira]

> Recently Lula appointed his ... minister of justice as supreme court ministers.

A self-admitted communist no less. And Lula bragged about that fact. "For the first time in history, we have a communist in the supreme court" or something like that. This country just gets better and better every day.