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Salomão Becomes STJ President to Implement Case Filter and Confront Integrity Probes

He begins a two-year term focused on rolling out the 'filtro de relevância' in September to cut appeals to the court in order to strengthen its precedents.

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O novo presidente do STJ, ministro Luis Felipe Salomão.
Luís Felipe Salomão assume mandato até 2028. Histórico inclui declarações contra exposição de juízes.

Overview

  • Luís Felipe Salomão formally took office as president of the Superior Tribunal de Justiça, with Mauro Campbell as vice-president, after a ceremony on Wednesday, August 19, 2026.
  • The government-sanctioned 'filtro de relevância' (Law 15.484/2026) will require appeals to show clear economic, political, social, or legal relevance before the STJ will hear them, a change meant to make the court more precedent-driven.
  • Salomão has said the filter could reduce the court's docket by as much as 45 percent and set the rule to enter into force in September while the court updates its internal rules and training.
  • The new administration must also manage high-profile integrity challenges, including the Polícia Federal's Operation Sisamnes and PGR indictments related to an alleged scheme to sell decisions, plus the plenary sanction recommending loss of office for minister Marco Buzzi after a finding of sexual harassment.
  • Salomão has prioritized improving decision quality, public transparency, staff training and regulated use of artificial intelligence as tools to speed case handling without risking rights, and his agenda builds on pressure to relieve a court that handled more than half a million new cases in 2025.