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Age57 years
BornDec 13, 1968
CountryBrazil
ProfessionLawyer, politician, judge
ZodiacSagittarius ♐
Born inSão Paulo
PartnerViviane Barci de Moraes
Alexandre de Moraes
Personal Facts, Age, Height and Biography of Alexandre de Moraes
is a Brazilian jurist, former politician, former president of the Superior Electoral Court, and current justice of the Supreme Federal Court. Moraes was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Michel Temer in 2017 when serving as Minister of Justice and Public Security. Previously, Moraes had acted as Secretary for Public Security in the state of São Paulo and had been a member of the Brazilian Public Prosecutor's Office.
From around 2020, Moraes has generated wide public attention in Brazil and abroad for ordering several arrests, search warrants, and terminations of social media accounts of individuals and groups involved or suspected to be involved in planning coups and propagating fake news, in addition to brief nationwide blocks of widely used platforms that had failed to comply with Brazilian court orders, such as Telegram and Twitter, until their regularization under Brazilian law. He has been a widely controversial figure since, gathering a great number of both supporters and opponents. While critics say his measures are authoritarian, abusive, unconstitutional, and partisan, to supporters they are legal, albeit stern, and have been necessary to maintain Brazil's democratic rule, preventing coups and the rise of extremism. Among Moraes's supporters is the current president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and among his critics is the former president Jair Bolsonaro, American president Donald Trump, and Elon Musk.
Moraes's tenure as president of Brazil's Superior Electoral Court and certain actions he took during the 2022 Brazilian general election have made him the target of criticism, including conspiracy theories, by Bolsonaro and his supporters. After the 2023 Brazilian Congress attack, Moraes ordered several controversial judicial actions, being criticized for combining investigative and judicial functions against the coup planners, authorizing preventive detentions, content removal and blocking of profiles on social networks, generating debates about impartiality, legality and raising concerns about freedom of speech and the limits of judicial power. Moraes classified the coup planners as terrorists, which provoked protests from right-wing Congress members, while other political groups from center and left-wing parties, and majority of Brazilians, supports and praises his actions as democratic and accurate following the threats brought by Bolsonaro and his supporters.
In July 2025, the US State Department imposed an entry ban on Moraes and other Supreme Court justices, alleging "political persecution against Jair Bolsonaro" and violations of the basic rights of Brazilians and Americans. Later that month, the US Treasury Department imposed economic sanctions under the Magnitsky Act on Moraes, although he has no accounts, investments or assets in the United States. This measure was widely criticized as Trump's interference in Brazilian national sovereignty and its separation of powers; among those who criticized the application of the Magnitsky Act against Moraes were Bill Browder, the leader of the campaign for its passage, Transparency International, which warned of the risk of institutional instability in Brazil, the non-governmental organization Human Rights First, and the British magazine The Economist. Moraes said he would ignore the Magnitsky procedure and that he would remain the rapporteur of the criminal case regarding the coup d'état attempt in Brazil. On December 12, the Trump administration backed down and removed Moraes and his wife from the Magnitsky's list. That same year, the Financial Times included Moraes in its list of the 25 most influential people in the world, in the "Heroes" category.
From around 2020, Moraes has generated wide public attention in Brazil and abroad for ordering several arrests, search warrants, and terminations of social media accounts of individuals and groups involved or suspected to be involved in planning coups and propagating fake news, in addition to brief nationwide blocks of widely used platforms that had failed to comply with Brazilian court orders, such as Telegram and Twitter, until their regularization under Brazilian law. He has been a widely controversial figure since, gathering a great number of both supporters and opponents. While critics say his measures are authoritarian, abusive, unconstitutional, and partisan, to supporters they are legal, albeit stern, and have been necessary to maintain Brazil's democratic rule, preventing coups and the rise of extremism. Among Moraes's supporters is the current president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and among his critics is the former president Jair Bolsonaro, American president Donald Trump, and Elon Musk.
Moraes's tenure as president of Brazil's Superior Electoral Court and certain actions he took during the 2022 Brazilian general election have made him the target of criticism, including conspiracy theories, by Bolsonaro and his supporters. After the 2023 Brazilian Congress attack, Moraes ordered several controversial judicial actions, being criticized for combining investigative and judicial functions against the coup planners, authorizing preventive detentions, content removal and blocking of profiles on social networks, generating debates about impartiality, legality and raising concerns about freedom of speech and the limits of judicial power. Moraes classified the coup planners as terrorists, which provoked protests from right-wing Congress members, while other political groups from center and left-wing parties, and majority of Brazilians, supports and praises his actions as democratic and accurate following the threats brought by Bolsonaro and his supporters.
In July 2025, the US State Department imposed an entry ban on Moraes and other Supreme Court justices, alleging "political persecution against Jair Bolsonaro" and violations of the basic rights of Brazilians and Americans. Later that month, the US Treasury Department imposed economic sanctions under the Magnitsky Act on Moraes, although he has no accounts, investments or assets in the United States. This measure was widely criticized as Trump's interference in Brazilian national sovereignty and its separation of powers; among those who criticized the application of the Magnitsky Act against Moraes were Bill Browder, the leader of the campaign for its passage, Transparency International, which warned of the risk of institutional instability in Brazil, the non-governmental organization Human Rights First, and the British magazine The Economist. Moraes said he would ignore the Magnitsky procedure and that he would remain the rapporteur of the criminal case regarding the coup d'état attempt in Brazil. On December 12, the Trump administration backed down and removed Moraes and his wife from the Magnitsky's list. That same year, the Financial Times included Moraes in its list of the 25 most influential people in the world, in the "Heroes" category.
