Dramatic illustration of Brazil's CPI rejecting a report against STF justices in a 6-4 Senate vote.
Dramatic illustration of Brazil's CPI rejecting a report against STF justices in a 6-4 Senate vote.
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Brazil's organized crime CPI rejects report against STF justices

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Brazil's Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) on Organized Crime rejected Senator Alessandro Vieira's (MDB-SE) final report on Tuesday (April 14), which proposed indicting three Supreme Federal Court (STF) justices and the Attorney General. The report was defeated 6-4 after changes in the commission's composition. The substitutions favored government-aligned members, swaying the vote outcome.

Brazil's CPI on Organized Crime rejected Alessandro Vieira's report 6-4. The document proposed indicting STF justices Alexandre de Moraes, Dias Toffoli, and Gilmar Mendes, as well as Attorney General Paulo Gonet, for responsibility crimes linked to Banco Master. Vieira claimed Moraes and Toffoli acted incompatibly with their roles due to bank ties, Mendes suspended secrecy breaks to protect colleagues, and Gonet failed to investigate.

Composition changes directly impacted the outcome. Senators Sergio Moro (PL-PR) and Marcos do Val (Avante-ES), who favored the report, were replaced by Beto Faro (PT-PA) and Teresa Leitão (PT-PE). Soraya Thronicke (PSB-MS) became titular replacing Jorge Kajuru (PSB-GO). Against: Leitão, Faro, Soraya, Humberto Costa (PT-CE), Rogério Carvalho (PT-SE), Otto Alencar (PSD-BA). For: Vieira, Eduardo Girão (Novo-CE), Magno Malta (PL-ES), Esperidião Amin (PP-SC).

Articulation involved the Lula government, Senate President Davi Alcolumbre (União Brasil-AP), and the STF. STF President Edson Fachin issued a note repudiating the ministers' inclusion as a 'deviation of purpose' from the CPI, originally created to probe organized crime after a deadly Rio police action.

Vieira defended the report's technical focus, which also proposed recreating the Public Security Ministry and Rio intervention. With rejection, the text loses legal validity.

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Discussions on X reflect polarized sentiments following the CPI do Crime Organizado's 6-4 rejection of Senator Alessandro Vieira's report proposing indictments of STF justices Alexandre de Moraes, Dias Toffoli, Gilmar Mendes, and PGR Paulo Gonet. Pro-government users celebrate it as blocking a biased, anti-judiciary attack that ignored actual organized crime like PCC and CV. Critics, often right-leaning, denounce member substitutions as a Lula government maneuver to protect powerful figures. News accounts neutrally report the vote amid STF and Senate pressures.

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Brazilian Senate chamber during 42-34 vote rejecting Jorge Messias's STF nomination, first in 132 years.
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Brazil's Senate rejected Attorney-General Jorge Messias's nomination to the Supreme Federal Court (STF) on Wednesday (April 29, 2026), with 42 votes against and 34 in favor. The vote marks the first rejection of a presidential nominee to the Court in 132 years, since 1894. Messias had been approved by the CCJ committee 16-11 after an eight-hour hearing.

In response to a rejected CPI report proposing his indictment, STF Justice Gilmar Mendes on April 15 requested Attorney General Paulo Gonet investigate Senator Alessandro Vieira for abuse of authority, citing deviation from the commission's organized crime focus.

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STF President Edson Fachin rejected a Senate CPI of Organized Crime's appeal against Justice Gilmar Mendes' earlier suspension of secrecy breaks on Maridt Participações, a firm linked to Justice Dias Toffoli. This keeps the company's banking, fiscal, phone, and telematic records sealed amid probes into financial irregularities and possible organized crime ties.

STF Minister André Mendonça ruled on Monday (March 23) that the Court's plenary analyze the endorsement of the preliminary injunction extending the INSS CPMI's work. He ordered Senate President Davi Alcolumbre to read the extension request within 48 hours. The decision responds to lawmakers investigating frauds in pension benefits.

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