Brazil’s Supreme Court is 80% staffed by ministers appointed by Lula’s party
Of the 30 ministers that make up the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), 24 were nominated by the Workers’ Party (PT, progressive-globalist), according to a survey on Poder360 published on Sunday 9.
In addition, until 2026, President Lula can appoint another six names to the Court.
In two terms, the PT has nominated ten people to the STJ.
The function of the STJ is to judge crimes committed by governors, state, federal, electoral, and labor appellate courts, audit court counselors, and public prosecutors.
A Justice of the STJ presides over the inquiry conducted by the Federal Police and the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office.
The STJ was created by the Constitution, which established that the president of the Republic was to appoint the Court’s justices.
The Court was created because of the extinction of the Federal Court of Appeals, installed after the Magna Carta of 1946.
PT WILL NOMINATE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT (STF)
In addition to the Justices of the STJ, the PT will nominate two names to the Supreme Court.
The vacancies will be opened with the retirement of the president of the Court, Rosa Weber, and Ricardo Lewandowski.
In short, the composition of the Court will remain ‘red’: seven nominations by the PT.
After Lewandowski and Rosa Weber, the next justice to retire is Luiz Fux in 2028.
Of all the members of the Court, Nunes Marques and Mendonça are the youngest ministers of the STF.
They are also the longest-serving of the 11 that make up the Court today.
Both will retire in 2047.
With information from Poder360
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