Alexandre de Moraes

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Alexandre de Moraes (Brazilian Portuguese: [aleˈʃɐ̃dɾi dʒi moˈɾajs]; born 13 December 1968) is a Brazilian jurist, former politician, former president of the Superior Electoral Court, and current justice of the Supreme Federal Court. Moraes was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Michel Temer in 2017 when serving as Minister of Justice and Public Security. Previously, Moraes had acted as Secretary for Public Security in the state of São Paulo and had been a member of the Brazilian Public Prosecutor's Office. Moraes's tenure as president of Brazil's Superior Electoral Court and certain actions he took during the 2022 Brazilian general election have made him the target of criticism by Bolsonaro's camp. After the 2023 Brazilian Congress attack, Moraes ordered several controversial judicial actions, facing criticism for combining investigative and judicial functions against alleged coup planners, authorizing preventive detentions, ordering several arrests, search warrants, and terminations...

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