Alexandre de Moraes

Alexandre de Moraes (born 13 December 1968 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian jurist, currently a justice of the Supreme Federal Court.

His Excellency
Alexandre de Moraes
Justice of the Supreme Federal Court
Assumed office
22 March 2017
Appointed byMichel Temer
Preceded byTeori Zavascki
Vice President of the Superior Electoral Court
Assumed office
22 February 2022
PresidentLuiz Edson Fachin
Preceded byLuiz Edson Fachin
Minister of Justice and Public Security
In office
12 May 2016 – 22 February 2017[lower-alpha 1]
PresidentMichel Temer
Preceded byEugênio Aragão
Succeeded byJosé Levi do Amaral (acting)
Personal details
Born (1968-09-13) 13 September 1968
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Political partyPSDB (2015–17)
Spouse(s)Viviane Barci de Moraes
Alma materUniversity of São Paulo
Other judicial positions
Other offices held
  • 2015–2016: Secretary, Public Security (São Paulo)
  • 2002–2005: Secretary, Justice (São Paulo)

Life

A Catholic, married with three children, Alexandre de Moraes studied at the Law Faculty of the University of São Paulo, graduating in 1990.[2]

Moraes is an associate professor of the Law School, University of São Paulo (USP). Doctored in State Law in the same university under the supervision of professor Dalmo Dallari, he presented a thesis about constitutional jurisdiction.

He was a member of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB). In 2002, he was appointed Secretary of Public Security of the State of Sao Paulo.[3]

He was nominated minister of the Supreme Federal Court by president Michel Temer on 22 February 2017, succeeding minister Teori Zavascki, who died 19 January 2017 in a plane crash.[4] He assumed office on 22 March 2017. As minister, he defends a policy of "zero tolerance". He denounced the alleged "criminal attitudes" of leftist movements and justified police violence. He was at the centre of a controversy when the daily Estadao published an investigation claiming that he had intervened to defend the Transcooper cooperative, suspected of being linked to Brazil's main drug trafficking group, the First Command of the Capital(PCC), which he denied.[5]

On June 2020, 10, Mr Moraes - in response to a legal challenge from three political parties - said the health ministry must "fully re-establish the daily divulgation of epidemiological data on the Covid-19 pandemic", including on its website: «Mr Moraes gave President Jair Bolsonaro's government 48 hours to release the full figures again».[6]

2020 Brazil Judiciary fake news inquiry

In April 2019, the Supreme Federal Court president Dias Toffoli launched an inquiry to investigate personal attacks and false statements against court members. Moraes was chosen as its rapporteur.[7] That month, Crusoé magazine reported that a document from Operation Car Wash revealed that then-Solicitor General Toffoli was involved in the Odebrecht scandal, according to the company's former chairman Marcelo Odebrecht.

On 15 April Moraes ordered that Crusoé take down the article from their website. Toffoli himself later requested a probe into whether Crusoé illegally leaked the document. The Court's decision on the matter was criticized by outlets such as The Intercept on the basis of censorship and attack on the freedom of the press.[8][9]

On May 27, 2020, as part of that same inquiry, the Federal Police launched an operation probing businessmen, bloggers and politicians allied to President Jair Bolsonaro.[10]

Supporters of President Bolsonaro accused Moraes of practicing political interference, of political repression and trying to deploy a constitutional dictatorship.[11][12][13]

On March 19, 2022, Moraes ordered the suspension of the messaging app Telegram, accusing it of repeatedly failing to block accounts spreading Disinformation, and ignoring previous court decisions. President Bolsonaro called the ruling "inadmissible", while Telegram founder Pavel Durov blamed the company's failings on email issues, pledging to do a better job. [14]

Notes
  1. Discharged from 7 February 2017 to 22 February 2017[1]

References
  1. Chagas, Paulo Victor (22 February 2017). "Alexandre de Moraes é nomeado para o Supremo Tribunal Federal" (in Portuguese). Agência Brasil. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  2. "Brésil : Le juge Alexandre de Moraes, bête noire de Bolsonaro". Le Monde.fr. 15 October 2021.
  3. "Brésil : Le juge Alexandre de Moraes, bête noire de Bolsonaro". Le Monde.fr. 15 October 2021.
  4. Renan Ramalho (22 February 2017). "Alexandre de Moraes toma posse no próximo dia 22 de março, informa STF" (in Brazilian Portuguese). G1. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  5. "Brésil : Le juge Alexandre de Moraes, bête noire de Bolsonaro". Le Monde.fr. 15 October 2021.
  6. Coronavirus: Brazil resumes publishing Covid-19 data after court ruling, BBC news, 11 June 2020.
  7. "Entenda o inquérito do Supremo que investiga ameaças à Corte e veja os pontos polêmicos". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  8. Brasil, The Intercept (2019-04-16). "'O amigo do amigo de meu pai': publicamos a reportagem da Crusoé que o STF censurou". The Intercept. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  9. Braziliense, Correio (2019-04-19). "'Não houve mordaça nem censura', diz Toffoli sobre tirar reportagem do ar". Correio Braziliense (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  10. "Polícia Federal faz buscas em endereços de Roberto Jefferson, Luciano Hang e blogueiros". G1 (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-06-18.
  11. "STF quer legislar e governar ao mesmo tempo". 9 June 2020.
  12. ""Censura, ditadura e vergonha": bolsonaristas reagem a ação da PF". 27 May 0312. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  13. "Advogado confronta Toffoli e Moraes durante sessão do STF: 'A pior ditadura é a do judiciário'". jusbrasil.com.br. 15 April 2019. Retrieved 15 June 2020.
  14. Brito, Ricardo; Paraguassu, Lisandra (2022-03-19). "Brazil's Supreme Court suspends Telegram, a key Bolsonaro platform". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-03-20.
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