US sanctions on the Brazilian Judge Alexander de Morris, who oversees the case against Trump, is the ally of Gear Bolsonaro

Washington – On Wednesday, the Ministry of Treasury faced the Brazilian Supreme Court judge, which supervises the case against former President Geer Bolsonaro, claiming that the judge was responsible for human rights violations and bad trials.

The sanctions announced by Treasury Scott Besense aimed at Alexander de Mora, who has worked in the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court since 2017. The Trump de Morris administration has accused the treatment of his authority to target political opponents, including Bolsonaro, Mr. Trump’s ally.

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“Alexander de Morais has taken it upon him to be the judge and the jury in an illegal charming chase against us, citizens and Brazilian companies,” Pesin said in a statement. “De Moraaes is responsible for a repressive campaign of control, arbitrary detention that violates human rights, and politicized trials – including against former President Jair Bolsonaro. Today’s action shows that the treasury will continue to hold accountable those who threaten the United States and the freedoms of our citizens.”

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said that the United States is punishing de Morais due to “dangerous” human rights violations, including the detention of people without accusations and violation of freedom of expression.

Rubio said that de Oresse “offended his authority by engaging in a targeted effort and political motives designed to silence political critics by issuing convincing secret orders online, including American social media companies, to ban individual accounts to publish a protected speech.”

“The United States will use all the appropriate diplomatic, political and legal tools to protect the Americans’ speech from foreign malicious actors who seek to undermine it,” he said in a statement.

Bolsonaro is Upon trial claiming a plan to organize To stay in office after the Brazil 2022 elections. He was charged in November, and public prosecutors accused the former leader of Brazil and seven others of seeking to “violently overthrow the democratic regime.” Bolsonaro lost the 2022 race against his left -wing president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. He denied these allegations and described the prosecution as “chasing the witch.”

Mr. Trump has publicly defended Polsonaro and described him as an “international disgrace.” in July 9 message If it had not been published on social media, the president said that the trial that involves Bolsonaro is “a charming chase that must end immediately!”

Mr. Trump also slapped 50 % on the Brazilian products imported to the United States on Wednesday. In an executive matter imposing fees, the President said that the actions of the Brazil government “are hateful of the moral and political values of democratic and free societies and contradict the United States’ policy to strengthen democratic governments around the world, the principle of freedom of expression, free elections, fairness, law of law, and respect for human rights.”

The guidance was de Morais by name, and his actions said, “The cold and the reduction of expression in the United States, violates human rights, and undermines the interest that the United States has to protect its citizens and companies at home and abroad.”

The president had said in a letter to Lula earlier this month a warning of the definitions that his administration concluded that the United States “should move away from the long and unremitized trade relationship that Brazil’s tariff generates, non -sharp policies and commercial barriers.”

The United States has a trade surplus with Brazil and the export of nearly $ 49 billion from goods to the country last year, According to the American Census Office. Brazil exported nearly $ 42 billion from products to the United States in 2024.