Having cleared the initial stage of clarifying the extremely serious allegations against Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, attention must now be paid to possible attempts to sabotage the procedure announced by Supreme Court Chief Justice Edson Fachin.
The biggest trap appears to have been avoided: repeating a secret session like the one in February that cleared Dias Toffoli. It will be harder to strike deals in broad daylight.But the covert battle is not over. One way of trying to sweep the elephant under the rug would be to consider only the opinion of Prosecutor General Paulo Gonet, without examining the substance of the Federal Police’s forensic report. Gonet was quick to deem invalid the report that identified Moraes as an interlocutor of mobster Daniel Vorcaro.
The prosecutor is not impartial on the matter. He is mentioned in the Federal Police report in situations involving his proximity to the fake banker’s entourage, one of them concerning the inclusion of his son in a Master open bar in London. The phrase "Yay!!! Hopefully there are cigars and Macallan!" instantly became a classic of the scandal.
Another crucial issue is which of the 10 justices will be barred from deliberating on whether to open the police investigation.
