Overview
- Days after issuing the injunction, Mendes maintained his ruling by rejecting an Attorney General’s Office request for reconsideration.
- His order suspends parts of the 1950 Impeachment Law and restricts the filing of impeachment requests against Supreme Court ministers to the Prosecutor General’s Office.
- Mendes said impeachment initiatives targeting justices surged since 2018 and are being used as political pressure against routine judicial acts.
- Senate President Davi Alcolumbre criticized the move and signaled potential constitutional changes to protect the chamber’s prerogatives.
- Justice Flávio Dino cited an “exaggerated” 81 impeachment petitions in the Senate, while critics warn the case will be reviewed in a virtual plenary that lacks live deliberation.