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(Eagle News) — “This is not the end. It is only the beginning.” Maria Lourdes Sereno had this to say as she spoke for the first time after she was ousted by her peers in the Supreme Court with a vote of 8-6 on Friday, May 11. Sereno was smiling as she emerged from her office in the High Court, where she presided over an en banc session but inhibited from deliberations on the quo […]
(Eagle News) – Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno becomes the first Philippine chief justice to be removed by her peers. With a vote of 8-6, Sereno was ousted from office on Friday, May 11, 2018 by majority of her colleagues as the high court, in an en banc session, that decided on the quo warranto petition filed by Solicitor General Jose Calida. Sereno inhibited from the proceedings as she insisted that six other […]
(Eagle News) — Maria Lourdes Sereno is “seriously considering” filing a motion for reconsideration of the decision of the Supreme Court to nullify her appointment as Chief Justice, one of her spokespersons said on Friday, May 11. In a television interview, Josa Deinla said this was considering the “fight was a close call,” with eight justices favoring the quo warranto petition filed by Solicitor General Jose Calida, and six voting against it. “And we know […]
(Eagle News) – Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno said she was within her rights to return to the high court as the chief magistrate, but will inhibit from the proceedings on quo warranto filed against her “out of delicadeza,” according to a statement issued by her camp. Sereno’s spokesperson for the impeachment hearings, Atty. Carlo Cruz said that Sereno had already finished preparations for the expected impeachment trial at the Senate and […]
(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)–Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno has asked the Supreme Court to order Associate Justice Samuel Martires to inhibit from the quo warranto petition filed against her. According to Sereno, this was because Martires exhibited “actual bias.” Proof of this, he said, were Martires’ comments about during the oral arguments set for the petition. “With due respect, it appears that Justice Martires has formed an opinion on the competence of respondent (Sereno) to serve as […]
(Eagle News)—–Senators Antonio Trillanes IV and Leila de Lima renewed their call for the Supreme Court to refrain from entertaining the quo warranto petition against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, saying it was “treading on dangerous ground.” “Kapag nilabag ng judiciary ang eksklusibong kapangyarihan ng Kongreso na magtanggal sa pwesto ng mga impeachable officers, lalampas na po kayo sa boundary ng kapangyarihan ninyo, at nag-tre-trespass na po kayo sa teritoryo ng lehislatura,” Trillanes and De […]
(Eagle News) — Two lawmakers have rejected the Coalition for Justice’s call for the Senate to ask the Supreme Court to suspend the quo warranto proceedings against Chief Justice on leave Maria Lourdes Sereno. According to Senator Francis Escudero, in the first place, the House of Representatives “has not yet even impeached her.” “There is no impeachment case before the Senate to even speak of. It would be presumptuous, to say the least, for the Senate […]
(Eagle News) — The voting of the Supreme Court on the quo warranto petition which seeks to oust Chief Justice-on leave Maria Lourdes P.A. Sereno as the Chief Justice will be on May 11. The new full court session was set about a week earlier than the original date of the vote on May 17. The change in the schedule is to avoid leakage on the decision of the justices. “It will leak on May […]
(Eagle News) – The Office of the Solicitor General “denied for lack of merit” a request of a private citizen that the OSG also file a quo warranto petition against Supreme Court Associate Justice Teresita Leonardo De Castro. Solicitor General Jose Calida said that his office filed the quo warranto petition against Supreme Court Chief Justice on leave Maria Lourdes Sereno based on the evidence discovered during the impeachment hearings against her at the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, April 13, called Supreme Court Chief Justice-on leave Maria Lourdes Sereno as “ignorant” and pretentious, and advised her to just resign. The President said that Sereno’s position as head of the Supreme Court until 2030, when she turns 70, is “too long for an ignorant Chief Justice.” Sereno, 58, was appointed as Chief Justice in August 2012 by former President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III when she […]
