Brazil’s Senate has asked Supreme Court Justice Luiz Fux to dismiss a lawsuit seeking access records for former banker Daniel Vorcaro and six other people, including Viviane Barci de Moraes, the wife of Justice Alexandre de Moraes, and Fábio Luís Lula da Silva, known as Lulinha.¹

The Senate’s legal office argues that releasing the logs would reach beyond simple building-entry information. It says visitor records could indirectly expose “sources, interlocutors and contacts” connected to lawmakers’ work, allowing outsiders to reconstruct agendas, policy discussions and information flows protected by parliamentary secrecy.¹ It also contends that compiling dates and times over more than six years could map the personal networks and behavioral patterns of the people named in the request.

The case stems from a request by Guilherme Kilter of the Novo party, a Curitiba councilman when he filed the action and now a federal lawmaker-elect. Kilter seeks records from February 2019 through February 2026. The Senate says he has no individualized legal relationship with the named people, nor a functional connection to the chamber that would justify access; it characterizes the request as broad oversight of third parties rather than a legally qualified transparency claim.¹

Kilter takes the opposite view. After the Senate repeated its privacy-law argument, he said the Access to Information Law should serve “every citizen,” whether from the press, politics or neither.² He disputes the contention that his former position as a city councilman deprived him of standing, adding that his election to Congress strengthens his case.

Both sides invoke safeguards against improper disclosure, but differ over where the balance lies. The Senate warns that publication would be irreversible even if a later ruling rejected the request, while Kilter maintains that the records are of collective and political interest. Fux must now assess whether transparency obligations outweigh the claimed privacy and parliamentary-confidentiality protections.²