Overview

• Barroso affirmed the Supreme Court is not ruling out measures against U.S. visa revocations and Magnitsky designations that hit at least six ministers and associates, including Alexandre de Moraes and his wife, Viviane Barci de Moraes.
• Rafael Tamai Rocha left his post as an auxiliary judge in Moraes’s office in a move formalized on September 15, a week before Washington announced the suspension of his U.S. visa.
• The Chamber’s push for an amnesty gave way to a narrower sentence‑revision draft that faces resistance from both opposition and government allies, and relator Paulinho da Força is delaying his report after Senate leaders archived the PEC da Blindagem.
• Moraes ordered Daniel Silveira’s defense to justify his absences from prison between physiotherapy sessions within five days and denied pastor Silas Malafaia access to the inquiry involving Eduardo Bolsonaro, noting the case files are public.
• Rio’s legislature approved stricter criteria for temporary prison releases and created a risk‑management program in the state penitentiary administration, while Tourism Minister Celso Sabino submitted his resignation under União Brasil’s directive to leave the government.