Overview
- The opposition's leaders Cabo Gilberto and Carlos Jordy formally submitted the petition to Senate president Davi Alcolumbre on Wednesday, bringing the total number of impeachment requests against Moraes to 52.
- The submission attaches the Italian Court of Cassation decision that said the Zambelli proceedings failed to meet impartiality and full‑defense guarantees and argues this shows Moraes concentrated investigatory, precautionary and judicial roles.
- The petition also cites a March search‑and‑seizure operation Moraes authorized against journalist Luís Pablo Conceição Almeida and frames that action as an attack on press freedom and part of the alleged due‑process failures.
- Under Brazil's Constitution the Senate must decide whether to accept a petition and to form a special committee to process crimes of responsibility, and Davi Alcolumbre can choose to archive the new filing or send it for formal assessment.
- If the Senate takes the case the petition asks for Moraes’s removal and an eight‑year ban from public office, a step that would deepen the political clash between parts of Congress and the Supreme Court and test untested impeachment procedures for STF ministers.