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The shouting match that forced Chief Justice Edson Fachin to intervene on September 15 broke out between Justices Gilmar Mendes and André Mendonça — and it started right after Gilmar defended Prosecutor General Paulo Gonet from suspicion, then pivoted straight into attacking Mendonça.
- The session ended in a provisional 4-4 tie on whether to merge the Moraes and Mendonça cases; Justice Flávio Dino's request to review the file froze the question with no return date set.
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Moraes's defense rests on a granular claim about phone forensics: of 52 notes federal police pulled from banker Daniel Vorcaro's device, 47 match no WhatsApp exchange at all, and only 5 are linked — by the timing of a screenshot, not by content — to a saved contact.
Below is a justice-by-justice breakdown of the legal reasoning nine members of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) laid out on September 15 in the case touching Justice Alexandre de Moraes and his contacts with jailed banker Daniel Vorcaro, plus an account of the shouting match between Justices Gilmar Mendes and André Mendonça.
