Overview

• Luís Roberto Barroso signed his retirement request on Monday and is set to end his 12-year tenure this week, with official separation on October 18 after working through October 17.
• The STF will keep a security team assigned to his public agendas under the policy that extended protection for retired justices from time-limited coverage to a lifetime option.
• Security planners currently rate all Supreme Court ministers at the highest red alert level, and justices traveling commercially are typically accompanied by two or three plainclothes agents.
• President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is expected to name a successor after the vacancy takes effect, with reported contenders including Attorney General Jorge Messias, Senator Rodrigo Pacheco, and TCU minister Bruno Dantas.
• Barroso says he will devote more time to personal life, spirituality, literature, and academic work between Brasília and Rio, and he received messages lamenting his exit, including from an ally of Jair Bolsonaro.