Overview

• Edson Fachin begins a two-year term as president of Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court with Alexandre de Moraes as vice-president.
• On his first day, he met Mercosur review tribunal president Eladio Loizaga to advance coordinated action against drug trafficking and contraband along South American borders.
• He convened leaders of superior, electoral, labor, military and state courts to restart coordinated dialogue and confront what he called a divide between courts and the public.
• He announced measures for transparency, racial equity and reintegration—creating an Integrity and Transparency Observatory, a Mutirão Racial and support for the Pena Justa plan—and pledged austere court management.
• He set an immediate docket featuring app workers’ employment status, challenges to changes in conservation-unit boundaries, age-based health-plan increases and police duty to inform suspects of the right to silence.