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(Eagle News) — The House of Representatives committee on justice on Thursday, May 27, unanimously junked the impeachment complaint filed against Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen. In junking the complaint filed by Edwin Cordevilla, secretary general of Filipino League of Advocates for Good Government, with a vote of 37-0-0, some lawmakers argued the complaint was based merely on hearsay. They noted the use of newspaper clippings to “back up” the claims in the complaint. […]
(Eagle News)– The Palace on Thursday, Sept. 13, shrugged off Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s remark President Rodrigo Duterte could face an impeachment complaint for his revelation a foreign country supplied him with proof there was a conspiracy to oust him as president. ‘Yung kasama niya na laging nagfa-file ng impeachment complaint, wala naman nangyayari..So let him file another impeachment complaint. Wala rin namang mangyayari diyan kasi wala naman talagang saysay,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said. […]
(Eagle News) — Maria Lourdes Sereno on Friday, June 15, said she should not be blamed for issuing public statements after the quo warranto petition and impeachment complaint were filed against her. In a statement issued by her legal team, Sereno, whose appointment as Chief Justice was nullified by the Supreme Court after it granted the quo warranto petition in May, said she was, after all, only responding to “vigorous assaults on her integrity.” According […]
(Eagle News) — Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on Saturday, May 5, gave the assurance she would win in the quo warranto case filed against her. “I am hopeful that young people will not be disappointed because victory is in the air, not because we are good in relying on number, but on the voices of people,” Sereno, who has been on leave since March 1, said in “The Mumshie on Fire: Speak Truth To Power” […]
(Eagle News) — Senators Antonio Trillanes IV and Leila de Lima reiterated on Thursday, April 18, that the quo warranto petition filed against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno should be quashed for lack of jurisdiction. In their four-page manifestation filed before the Supreme Court, Trillanes and De Lima, through their lawyers, said the “hostile environment for adjudicating the present case has clouded the jurisdictional issue they raised in their opposition-in-intervention.” On April 4, Trillanes and […]
“Ignorant” Chief Justice Sereno has to go, he reiterates (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, April 13, said he was directing his partymates to fast-track the impeachment of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, and not Congress. The President made the clarification in a speech upon his arrival from his trip to China and Hong Kong at the Davao International Airport. “Who am I to direct the Senate? We are talking of impeachment. We […]
(Eagle News) — Lawyer Oliver Lozano has passed away, a radio report said. The report over dzbb said Lozano, known for filing multiple impeachment complaints against former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, died due to a heart attack early Thursday, April 12. A day before, he was reportedly rushed to the hospital after experiencing weakness in the body. His remains have been cremated and are interred at the Mt. Carmel Shrine Mortuary Chapel in New Manila, Quezon […]
Sereno slated to attend By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Supreme Court is slated to hold oral arguments on the quo warranto petition filed against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on Tuesday, April 10. For the first time, Sereno is slated to face her colleagues, some of whom testified against her in House impeachment proceedings against her. She snubbed the House proceedings. Sereno has asked Associate Justices Teresita de Castro, Noel Tijam, Bienvenido Reyes […]
(Eagle News) — High-ranking officials of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines on Friday asked the Supreme Court for them to be allowed to intervene to ask for the dismissal of the quo warranto petition filed against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. In seeking for the dismissal of the petition filed by Solicitor General Jose Calida, the IBP argued that it was “fatally flawed because the allegations therein are clear that the (Judicial and Bar […]
(Eagle News) — A lawyer has filed a disbarment complaint against the man who filed an impeachment complaint against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. Wilfredo Garrido Jr. wants lawyer Larry Gadon disbarred over his allegedly perjurious statements and dishonesty in House hearings on the impeachment complaint against Sereno. In his complaint filed on March 15, Garrido cited Gadon’s claim that his source on the allegation that Sereno falsified court documents in 2013 was reporter Jomar […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Former Senator Juan Ponce Enrile volunteered to be part of the prosecution team in the expected impeachment trial against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. “He volunteered and he told us that he is very much willing to share his institutional memory in the prosecution of [Sereno],” said Umali. House Committee on Justice Chairman Reynaldo Umali said that Enrile wanted to share his knowledge about the prosecution process. “There are […]
(Eagle News) — Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on Thursday said the House justice panel’s finding of probable cause to impeach her was “not unexpected.” In an interview over CNN Philippines, Sereno said that she knew “from the beginning that the numbers were not in (her) favor.” “And that had been repeated so many times, countless times, in fact, by the leadership of the House..,” she said. Sereno’s statement was an echo of a statement […]
