Gilmar Mendes Rejects AGU Bid, Keeps Curbs on Impeaching STF Justices as Senate Pushes Back

Overview

• The monocratic order confines impeachment requests against Supreme Court ministers to the prosecutor general and raises the Senate acceptance threshold to two thirds.
• Mendes labeled the AGU’s reconsideration bid “manifestly inadmissible,” arguing that such a request has no basis in Brazilian procedural law.
• Senate leaders denounced an encroachment on legislative prerogatives and are weighing constitutional amendments and bills to limit single‑minister rulings and reassert impeachment procedures.
• Political reactions split allies, and the dispute strains the Senate environment for Lula’s nominee Jorge Messias, whose filing against PGR exclusivity was rejected.
• In a separate decision heightening friction, Justice Flávio Dino barred the Executive from processing new budget amendments by Eduardo Bolsonaro and Alexandre Ramagem, with the order headed to the full Court.