Overview
- De Moraes presided over former President Jair Bolsonaro’s coup trial on Friday, stressing that the court “will not bow” and will continue its proceedings uninterrupted.
- President Trump’s executive order taking effect August 6 imposes 50% tariffs on Brazilian exports under emergency trade powers.
- In July, the US revoked de Moraes’s visa and applied Global Magnitsky Act sanctions against him for alleged human rights abuses.
- Efforts by de Moraes and President Lula to unify the Supreme Federal Tribunal faltered when only six of eleven justices attended a solidarity dinner.
- Protesters in São Paulo, Brasília and Rio de Janeiro burned effigies of Trump and Bolsonaro to denounce perceived US meddling in Brazil’s judiciary.