Gilmar Mendes Keeps Limits on Impeaching Justices, Rejects AGU Bid to Revisit Ruling

Overview

• The injunction remains in force and narrows standing to file impeachment requests against Supreme Court justices to the prosecutor general while raising the Senate threshold to two thirds and barring use of decision merits or automatic suspensions as grounds.
• Gilmar Mendes ruled the AGU’s reconsideration request legally inadmissible and set no change before a virtual plenary review scheduled for December 12–19.
• Senate leaders denounced overreach into congressional prerogatives and weighed responses such as curbing monocratic rulings, while the Chamber’s Constitution and Justice Committee advanced a bill to limit solo injunctions.
• Jorge Messias’s nomination to the Court faces headwinds as his confirmation hearing was pulled with no 2025 vote expected, and Planalto allies acknowledge the decision complicates his path even as the president stands by the pick.
• In a parallel case, the Federal Police probe a September 2024 dispatch by Rio governor Cláudio Castro tied to a maneuver around the arrest of TH Jóias, after Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered state access logs and records.