STF Opened a Historic Vote on Moraes. Two Justices Quit the Bench Before Anyone Voted.
- The Brazilian Senate has more than 55 impeachment requests against Justice Alexandre de Moraes since January 2021, with a recent request filed on September 5, 2026, supported by 20 signatures from multiple parties.
- Justice Edson Fachin removed Alexandre de Moraes from the controversial fake news inquiry amid a judiciary crisis, though Fachin upheld Moraes's rulings within that inquiry.
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Alexandre de Moraes and André Mendonça lead an open war in the Brazilian Supreme a few weeks before the presidential elections. On the one hand, De Moares, close to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is in the eye of the extreme right after Mendonça, former justice minister of Jair Bolsonaro, published a report with messages from Daniel Vorcaro, guilty of the country's greatest financial fraud, in which he asks the magistrate to stop the investigation.
Fachin denied the request of Minister Alexandre de Moraes for the plenary of the Court to judge together the complaints against him and Minister André Mendonça.
Supreme faces unprecedented wear and evaluates unprecedented investigation against Alexandre de Moraes. Specialists point out that the image of the institution is compromised after escalation of tension among ministers.
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