Overview
- Justice Alexandre de Moraes denied Filipe Martins’s request to include Justice Luiz Fux in the Primeira Turma, calling the bid dilatory and citing the court’s rules on quorum and panel composition.
- Moraes authorized a revised defense slide deck for Martins’s oral argument after an initial veto, excluding one video and three images as irrelevant or disruptive.
- He maintained a prohibition on Martins giving an interview to Poder360 to avoid what he described as the risk of procedural turmoil at this point.
- The First Panel is set to start judging nucleus two on December 9 at 9 a.m. Brasília time with Moraes, Cristiano Zanin, Cármen Lúcia, and Flávio Dino, with one seat vacant after Fux’s transfer.
- Nucleus two includes Martins and five others accused of drafting a coup decree, plotting violence against authorities, and hindering voters in 2022, and 24 defendants have been convicted in earlier phases.