🇧🇷⚖️❌ 🇧🇷— LAWFARE: Alexandre de Moraes' strategy to persecute opponents

This report presents the studies of lawyer and researcher Enio Viterbo on how Alexandre de Moraes uses lawfare to persecute the Brazilian right and former president Jair Bolsonaro.

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🇺🇸▶️❗️🇧🇷⚖️ — Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes has become the target of a lawsuit in the United States, filed by the Trump Media and Technology Group Corp., linked to the American president, and the video platform Rumble

📝 The companies accuse the Supreme Court justice of:

➡️illegally attempting to impose “Brazilian censorship laws” on companies based in the United States;

➡️violating freedom of speech, a right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In the document, the companies state that Moraes ordered the suspension of accounts belonging to a Brazilian political commentator exiled in the U.S. The individual was not identified. They also cite the suspension of nearly 150 accounts critical of Lula;

➡️violating the CDA (Communications Decency Act). This legislation regulates internet content in the U.S. It includes Section 230, which exempts online service providers from liability for user-generated content;

➡️exercising jurisdiction beyond Brazil by attempting to regulate digital content in the United States. According to the companies, the gag orders issued by Moraes cannot be enforced in the U.S. “No extraterritorial decree or judicial overreach from abroad can override the freedoms protected by the U.S. Constitution and law,” they argue;

➡️violating U.S. sovereignty by attempting to impose sanctions and fines on American companies without adhering to international treaties between the two countries, such as the MLAT (Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty).

‼️ The companies claim that if Rumble does not comply with the order, Moraes could pressure companies like Apple and Google to remove the Rumble app from their stores, harming the platform’s global operations.

🖥 Although not directly affected, Truth Social, Trump's social media network, states that it relies on Rumble’s technology for video hosting, which would negatively impact it if the platform’s operations were disrupted.

⚖️ Here are the requests made in the lawsuit:

➡️ a declaration that Moraes’ orders cannot be enforced in the U.S.;

➡️a ban on companies like Apple and Google removing the Rumble app due to orders from the Supreme Court;

➡️egal protection to ensure that Rumble and TMTG are not forced to comply with foreign censorship.

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