Senate Sets Tuesday Vote on Marco Temporal Amendment Before Supreme Court Review
The push follows Gilmar Mendes’s order limiting impeachment filings against justices, escalating a power struggle between Congress and the court.
Overview
- Senate president Davi Alcolumbre scheduled a floor vote for Dec. 9 on a constitutional amendment that would entrench the Marco Temporal rule for indigenous land demarcation.
- The Supreme Court will resume its review on Dec. 10 under rapporteur Gilmar Mendes, who led mediation efforts between indigenous groups and landowners and shifted the case to in-person arguments.
- The proposed amendment, authored by Senator Dr. Hiran, would place the 1988 cutoff into the Constitution, giving it greater force than the 2023 statute now under challenge, and it was previously stalled in the CCJ.
- In 2023, the Supreme Court found the time-limit thesis unconstitutional, Congress passed legislation to validate it, President Lula vetoed most of the bill, and lawmakers later overrode the vetoes.
- Alcolumbre has denounced Mendes’s monocratic decision reserving impeachment requests to the prosecutor general and recently canceled Jorge Messias’s confirmation hearing, citing a missing formal nomination message.