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Fux Cancels Supreme Court Panel Session After Mendonça Decision on Federal Police Chief

From Folha de S.Paulo · () Portuguese

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  • Supreme Court Justice Luiz Fux canceled the Second Panel’s scheduled session on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2026.
  • The panel had begun reviewing whether to uphold André Mendonça’s order keeping Federal Police chief Andrei Rodrigues away from command.
  • The session was canceled after Mendonça’s decision to remove Rodrigues from the post.

Justice Luiz Fux canceled Tuesday’s session of Brazil’s Supreme Court Second Panel after Justice André Mendonça ordered the removal of Federal Police chief Andrei Rodrigues.

The panel had already begun considering whether to uphold Mendonça’s order and maintain Rodrigues’s removal from command of the Federal Police.

The session had been scheduled as an in-person meeting. The report was published on Aug. 9, 2026, at 2:54 p.m.

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Originally published by Folha de S.Paulo in Portuguese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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