Overview
- Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered Bolsonaro confined to his Brasilia residence under house arrest with an electronic ankle monitor and strict visitor limits.
- Federal Police executed a court-approved search of his home, seizing all phones and devices capable of accessing social media.
- The court found Bolsonaro violated bans by using allied and family accounts to post messages encouraging assaults on government institutions and backing foreign intervention in Brazil’s judiciary.
- President Trump’s administration imposed a 50 percent tariff on key Brazilian imports, revoked visas of eight Supreme Court justices and froze assets of Judge Alexandre de Moraes.
- Judicial officials warned that any further breach of restrictions could trigger pretrial detention as the trial for alleged election subversion and coup plotting proceeds.