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What Sérgio Moro said about assign jurisdiction to the STF to try ex-Presidents

About: assign jurisdiction to the STF to try ex-Presidents

Sérgio Moro: And Minister Luiz Fux, whom I particularly admire as a judge, today emphasized in his vote, still in progress, what, in my view, is the original sin of this whole process: the question of the jurisdiction of the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal).

Sérgio Moro: I have said, and with respect to the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal), that it was a big mistake for it to assume that jurisdiction to try this case and likewise that of the January 8 protesters, and the reason is very simple.

In the case in question, Bolsonaro is a former President, he is no longer President, so the basis for special jurisdiction by virtue of office no longer applies.

Sérgio Moro · 0:50

Sérgio Moro: And let us make clear that the STF (Supreme Federal Tribunal) had a jurisprudence embodied in Súmula 394.

Sérgio Moro: Súmula 394 extended the special jurisdiction by virtue of office beyond the period in which the office was held.

Why it was classified this way · 80% confidence

states that, as a former President, the prerogative that attracts jurisdiction was removed.

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