Moraes' wife is involved in cases before the Supreme Federal Court.
The law firm of Alexandre de Moraes' family has at least six ongoing cases before the STF (Supreme Federal Court). The lawyers handling the cases are Viviane Barci de Moraes, the wife of the licensed Minister of Justice, Laerte José Castro Sampaio, Lucas Marisili da Cunha, and Alex Saito.
247 - The law firm of Alexandre de Moraes' family has at least six ongoing cases before the STF (Supreme Federal Court). The lawyers handling the cases are Viviane Barci de Moraes, the wife of the licensed Minister of Justice, Laerte José Castro Sampaio, Lucas Marisili da Cunha, and Alex Saito.
The information is from Reporting by Camila Matoso and Letícia Casado in Folha de S.Paulo.
Alexandre de Moraes' name still appears as a lawyer in some of the cases, due to his involvement before assuming the position of Secretary of Public Security of São Paulo in January 2015, when he resigned from all cases in which he was listed as a lawyer.
Supreme Court justices say there is no problem with Moraes taking a seat on the court despite his former firm handling cases before the Supreme Court. They cite the case of Justice Luís Roberto Barroso, who left his private practice to join the Supreme Court and declares himself ineligible to judge cases involving the firm where he was a partner.
One of the appeals filed by Moraes' wife's legal team was being handled by Justice Teori Zavascki, whose seat could be inherited by Temer's nominee. To avoid handling the case, the new Justice would have to recuse himself.
Moraes will be questioned by the Senate in order to be able to assume the position on the Supreme Court.
He has already begun a routine of visiting parliamentarians before the session in which he will answer questions publicly.
When contacted, Moraes stated that he left the firm in May 2016 and that, despite this, he "will recuse himself from any analysis that may occur in the Supreme Court that includes any potential clients" of the firm at any time.