Overview
- Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court First Chamber rejected Jair Bolsonaro’s last clarification appeals, effectively finalizing his September conviction for conspiring to overturn the 2022 election.
- Relator Alexandre de Moraes said there was no omission in the judgment and deemed the defense arguments unviable, with Flávio Dino, Cristiano Zanin and Cármen Lúcia voting the same way.
- Justice Luiz Fux exited the chamber and did not participate in this phase after previously standing as the lone dissent in the original 4–1 conviction.
- The court also denied appeals from several co-defendants, including former ministers Walter Braga Netto, Paulo Sérgio Nogueira and Anderson Torres, and former navy chief Almir Garnier.
- Authorities must now decide where Bolsonaro will serve the term and arrange his transfer from house arrest, as his legal team considers seeking home detention on health grounds.