Brazil, judge orders access to Moraes' classified documents on the Bolsonaro case

Judge Luiz Fux of the Brazilian Supreme Court today ordered the judicial secretariat of the country's highest legal institution to guarantee his office full access to the documents of three investigations conducted by his colleague Alexandre de Moraes: the first on the attempted coup of 2023, the second on "fake news", started in 2019 and still ongoing, and the third on the so-called "digital militias" in favor of former president Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022). The request, reports CNN Brasil, is linked to an action presented by his defence, which disputes the regularity of the procedures adopted in the three proceedings and requests the annulment of the documents and evidence.

The appeal to Fux's examination, if accepted by the judge, could have consequences on the sentence of Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a sentence of 27 years and three months under house arrest for attempted coup d'état.