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Far-right parliamentarians want to call for the impeachment of Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes<\/a>. Senator Eduardo Gir\u00e3o (Novo Party) told the Brazilian newspaper Estad\u00e3o<\/em> that the signatures for the impeachment petition will be collected by September 7 and that the petition will be filed on September 9.<\/p>\n The action comes after the release of a story by the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo<\/em> on Tuesday (13) showing that Moraes allegedly used the Superior Electoral Court (TSE, in Portuguese) unofficially to produce reports against allies of former president Jair Bolsonaro.<\/p>\n These reports would have been used to support Moraes’ decisions in the so-called fake news investigation conducted by the Supreme Court. Folha’s story had access to six gigabytes of messages exchanged between Moraes’ office at the Supreme Court and the TSE’s department responsible for combating disinformation, which at the time was headed by Moraes himself.<\/p>\n In response, Moraes’ office issued a statement saying that \u201call the procedures were official, regular and duly documented in the inquiries and investigations underway at the Supreme Court, with the full participation of the Attorney General’s Office.”<\/p>\n