Bolsonaro prepares his legacy and nominates two judges to his liking to the Superior Court of Justice

President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) on Monday (1) nominated federal judges Messod Azulay, TRF-2 (Federal Regional Court for the 2nd Region), and Paulo Sergio Domingues, TRF-3, for the two vacancies on the STJ. The Superior Court of Justice is the highest appellate court in Brazil for non-constitutional questions of federal law.

According to a widely read newspaper column, the nominations come as a surprise since Ney Bello’s name appeared as a favorite for one of the positions.

Bolsonaro has accelerated the nominations. He is concerned about a possible defeat in the presidential race and is already placing names in the STJ.

For this reason, he intends to use the Senate’s whole work week of August 8-12 to formalize the nominations. The House must approve the names.

Read the profiles of the candidates nominated by Bolsonaro:

Paulo Sérgio Domingues – holds a master’s degree in law from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany, and a law degree from the University of São Paulo, and is a professor of civil procedure at the Sorocaba Law School (FADI). Since 2014, he has been a federal judge at the TRF-3 in São Paulo, President of the 7th Chamber of the Court, and a member of the Special Body. Previously, he was a lawyer and prosecutor in the Municipality of São Paulo.

Messod Azulay – Federal Judge at TRF-2, located in Rio de Janeiro. He graduated from the National Law School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and participated in the Getúlio Vargas Foundation training courses. He joined TRF-2 through the constitutional Fifth through the Brazilian Bar Association. He was already the director of the Cultural Center of the Federal Judiciary of Rio de Janeiro.