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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)–“I will never forgive you.” Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno said this was what Associate Justice Teresita de Castro told her when she accepted the top magistrate post in 2012. Speaking before an event organized by the Movement Against Tyranny, Sereno said De Castro, her senior who applied for the same position, even told her that “You should not even have applied in the first place.” According to Sereno, when she tried to mend her […]
(Eagle News)—-Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez on Monday, April 9, vowed to heed President Rodrigo Duterte’s call to expedite the impeachment process against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. “It will be done once we resume sessions,” Alvarez said. President Duterte made the pronouncement on Monday, April 9, apparently irked at Sereno’s insinuations he was behind ouster moves against her despite his repeated denials. Earlier, Sereno urged Duterte to explain why Solicitor General Jose Calida filed the quo […]
“She is bad for the PHL,” Duterte says (Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, April 9, urged Congress to fast-track its impeachment of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, saying she is “bad for the Philippines.” President Duterte made the pronouncement in a speech prior to his departure for China, apparently irked that Sereno was linking him to ouster moves against her despite his denials. Earlier, Sereno asked Duterte to explain why it was Solicitor General […]
(Eagle News)–Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno will still attend the April 10 oral argument set for her quo warranto case even if the Supreme Court does not act on her manifestation that five justices inhibit themselves. This is according to Josa Deinla, SC spokesperson, who gave a radio interview on Sunday. “Talagang nagpasya si Chief Justice na pupunta siya personal at aattend sa hearing,” Deinla said. Deinla reiterated however that Sereno was not acknowledging that […]
(Eagle News)–The Coalition for Justice (CFJ) is urging the Supreme Court en banc to order its five supposedly biased members to inhibit from the quo warranto case against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. The CFJ said Justices Teresita de Castro, Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin, Francis Jardeleza, and Noel Tijam should be told to inhibit if they refuse to inhibit themselves “to preserve (the SC’s) credibility as an institution mandated to dispense justice.” “To allow its members to brazenly […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Chief Justice on-leave Maria Lourdes Sereno will attend oral arguments on the quo warranto petition filed against her. Jojo Lacanilao, one of Sereno’s spokespersons, said Sereno will appear before her colleagues on April 10 and “engage them.” “We believe that Solicitor General (Jose) Calida is wrong in filing the petition,” Lacanilao said, reiterating that the “appropriate measure” to remove the Chief Justice was via impeachment. “We hope that the […]
(Eagle News) — Senators Antonio Trillanes IV and Leila de Lima have asked the Supreme Court to allow them to intervene and oppose the quo warranto petition filed against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. In a five-page motion, Trillanes and De Lima said as “citizens, taxpayers and senators of the Republic,” they “have the right and duty to uphold the Constitution and to oppose government actions that are clearly patently unconstitutional.” They added they also […]
(Eagle News) — A lawmaker on Wednesday slammed lawyer Larry Gadon for saying the Makabayan bloc and other groups have no legal standing to question the quo warranto petition filed against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. In a statement on Wednesday, Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate said “as he is wont to do,” Gadon “did not read the pleading in intervention that we filed where our standing or right to intervene as legislators and […]
Calida says “it appears she fabricated her 2006 SALN” for her Associate Justice post application in 2010, among others (Eagle News)–Solicitor General Jose Calida on Tuesday accused Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno of deliberately misleading the Judicial and Bar Council with a “litany of falsehoods,” including her alleged fabrication of a Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth during her application for Associate Justice in 2010. In a statement, Calida said that “when Sereno resigned […]
(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) – Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno continued to defend herself before the student community as she claimed that the impeachment campaign against her was “malevolent and orchestrated,” and “apparently funded by a formidable machinery.” She also warned that not one person in the country will be safe if she is ousted as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, as she faced not only an impeachment process, but a quo warranto […]
