'Changing your understanding is evolving,' says Fux when opening a divergence in preliminary discussions

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The beginning of the vote by Minister Luiz Fux , of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) , in the trial of the coup plot was celebrated by allies of Jair Bolsonaro , who closely monitored every word spoken by the judge. Since the beginning of the analysis of the complaint, in the First Chamber of the Court, against the former president and seven other defendants for attempted coup d'état, Fux made the strongest counterpoints to the rapporteur, Alexandre de Moraes

"A breath of serenity and good law," Carlos Portinho (RJ) told Coluna do Estadão the leader of the PL in the Senate . The leader of the bench in the Chamber , Sóstenes Cavalcante (RJ), also praised Fux's speech:"a technical vote," he told Coluna.

Fux has become almost a hero for Bolsonarism. So much so that the revocation of the visas of Supreme Court justices by the United States, influenced by Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP), affected only three justices of the Court: André Mendonça and Kassio Nunes Marques , both appointed by Bolsonaro, and Fux.

On Wednesday, the 10th, Fux argued that the Supreme Federal Court (STF) lacks jurisdiction to judge the coup plot and opened his vote by advocating the annulment of all acts in the case against Bolsonaro and the other seven defendants. The justice argued that the former president should be tried in the Federal Court. Fux's position in this case differs from the understanding he himself expressed when voting in the cases against those accused of the coup plot on January 8th.