Overview

• STF’s five-judge panel began sessions in Brasília and scheduled hearings for Sept. 2, 3, 9, 10 and 12, with at least three votes needed to convict and a decision due by Sept. 12.
• Bolsonaro faces charges including attempted coup, violent abolition of the democratic state, participation in an armed criminal organization and qualified damage, with prosecutors citing 1,764 evidentiary items totaling about 80 terabytes and an alleged plot dubbed “Puñal Verde y Amarillo” that contemplated assassinations.
• He remains under house arrest with an electronic monitor as the court orders round-the-clock perimeter surveillance and vehicle inspections based on a flagged flight risk.
• Seven co-defendants include former ministers Walter Braga Netto, Paulo Sérgio Nogueira, Anderson Torres and Augusto Heleno, ex–navy chief Almir Garnier, ex–intelligence head Alexandre Ramagem and aide-turned-informant Mauro Cid.
• The proceedings carry diplomatic fallout as President Trump imposes 50% tariffs on some Brazilian exports and his administration sanctions Justice Alexandre de Moraes, while Bolsonaro allies in Congress discuss a possible amnesty.