WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald

Trump's Trump Media & Technology Group ( DJT ) and video-sharing

platform Rumble sued a Brazilian Supreme Court justice

over accusations of illegal censorship on Wednesday.

The case comes as the judge, Alexandre de Moraes, weighs

charges brought on Tuesday alleging former Brazil President Jair

Bolsonaro led a plot to overthrow the country's government and

undermine the country's 40-year-old democracy after his 2022

election loss.

Trump Media's ( DJT ) lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in

Tampa, alleged that the judge's previous orders "censor

legitimate political discourse in the United States."

Brazil's Supreme Court and Moraes' office did not

immediately respond to requests for comment. In recent years,

Moraes has issued many rulings blocking social media accounts.

The Republican U.S. president is a majority owner of Trump

Media ( DJT ), which runs his private social media platform Truth

Social, although the Trump Organization has said he would hand

over daily management of his various businesses to his children

while serving in the White House.

Trump's vice president, former venture capitalist and former

U.S. Senator JD Vance, had previously invested in Florida-based

Rumble in 2021, the same year Trump joined the platform.