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(Eagle News)–A former Supreme Court justice believes impeachable officials can be subjected to quo warranto proceedings. Former Associate Justice Antonio Eduardo Nachura said the remedy “can be used to question the right of a public officer to continue holding a public office if there is an irregularity in the title to the public office.” Nachura’s position runs contrary to the position of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, who faces a quo warranto case, she can only […]
(Eagle News) — The filing of a quo warranto petition against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno is “not the best act of kindness” toward her, her camp said. Belying Solicitor General Jose Calida’s claim, Sereno’s spokespersons said in a statement that the “best act of kindness” was “to transmit to the Senate the articles of impeachment expeditiously if they find probable cause in the committee and vote for impeachment in the plenary.” According to them, […]
(Eagle News) — A mere “scrap of paper.” This was how the camp of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno described the petition filed by a suspended lawyer urging the Solicitor General to challenge the top magistrate’s appointment. “We cannot help but view this latest ignorant attempt as part and parcel of the grand plan to harass, malign and humiliate the Chief Justice to force her to resign,” Sereno’s spokesperson Josa Deinla said in a statement after […]
