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Minister Kassio Nunes Marques, of the Supreme Court, asked for a leading role and interrupted the trial for yet another action that would discuss whether President Jair Bolsonaro can block users on social networks or not. On the 16th, the minister adopted the same procedure and stopped the analysis of a case on the same subject, which was resolved in the virtual plenary session of the Court.
The outstanding request was presented on Saturday 28, the day after the start of the trial on the platform with the vote of Minister Cármen Lúcia, rapporteur of the lawsuit filed by the lawyer Antônio Carlos Carvalho. He voted to force Bolsonaro to unblock journalist and former candidate for councilor William de Lucca (PT). According to Carmen, the act of blocking by the president is “anti-republican” and contradicts the principles of Democracy by excluding from the debate the citizen who “does not flatter him” in his comments.
In practice, Kassio’s action takes the case out of the virtual plenary and sends it for discussion in the physical plenary. However, the case has not yet been pronounced by the President of the Court, Minister Luiz Fux, and there is no date for the resumption of the trial.
This was Kassio’s second prominent request in a lawsuit on the same issue. On the 16th, the minister interrupted the analysis of a lawsuit filed by the Ceará lawyer, Leonardo Medeiros, who could not follow the president after criticizing a publication made by Bolsonaro on Instagram.
The rapporteur, Minister Marco Aurélio Mello, had voted to force Bolsonaro to unblock Medeiros, saying that it is not up to the president to exercise the role of ‘censor’.
The position of the dean and Cármen Lúcia opposes the opinions of the Attorney General’s Office (AGU), responsible for Bolsonaro’s defense, and the Attorney General’s Office. For the AGU, the president’s account has a ‘personal’ character and the acts carried out in it cannot have an ‘institutional’ character or be read as actions of the federal government.
Along the same lines, Augusto Aras said that Bolsonaro’s social media accounts should not be subject to the rules of public administration because they are “personal.” In three demonstrations on the subject, the PGR defended the blockade imposed by the president.
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