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(Eagle News) — Bahala na ang Korte Suprema sa quo warranto petition na isinampa ni Atty. Elly Pamatong laban kay Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte. Sinabi ni Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque na isang independent body ang Korte Suprema na hindi maaaring panghimasukan ng ibang ahensiya ng pamahalaan. Ayon kay Roque tiwala naman ang Malcañang sa karunungan ng mga mahistrado ng Korte Suprema para magbigay ng hatol sa mga usaping legal. Si Pangulong Duterte ay sinampahan ni Pamatong […]
Urges SC to declare vacant all posts occupied by Duterte appointees By Moira Encina Eagle News Service Controversial figure Elly Pamatong on Wednesday, June 6, urged the Supreme Court to declare the election of President Rodrigo Duterte as chief executive as null, and to declare vacant the posts of his appointees. In filing the 6-page petition for quo warranto, Pamatong, who also ran for president at least two times and was tagged a nuisance candidate […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Supreme Court has set oral arguments for the petition seeking to have the Philippines’ withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court declared as invalid. Oral arguments on the petition for certiorari and mandamus filed by Senators Francis Pangilinan, Franklin Drilon, Paolo Benigno Aquino IV, Leila de Lima, Risa Hontiveros and Antonio Trillanes IV were slated on July 24, at 2 p.m., at the SC’s session hall. […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Supreme Court on Tuesday, June 5, gave Solicitor General Jose Calida five days to respond to Maria Lourdes Sereno’s motion for reconsideration of the High Court decision that nullified her appointment as Chief Justice. It was Calida who filed the quo warranto petition that led to the landmark SC ruling on May 11. During the en banc session, Associate Justice Noel Tijam, who was the ponente, was not […]
(Eagle News) — A former senator and a nun have asked the Supreme Court to make the Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth of the justices available to the public. Former lawmaker Rene Saguisag and Mary John Mananzan said such was, after all, a “justified and a necessary consequence of the Supreme Court’s majority decision on the quo warranto petition against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno.” “Since the majority of the Court has ruled […]
(Eagle News) — Supreme Court Associate Justice Noel Tijam was already drafting the Supreme Court decision that nullified Maria Lourdes Sereno’s appointment as Chief Justice four days before she submitted comments to the quo warranto petition against her, Sereno herself said on Saturday, June 2. In a statement, Sereno said the information was based on the footnotes of Tijam’s 153-page ponencia. “Justice Tijam had condemned Respondent before he heard her,” she said. According to Sereno, Tijam also […]
By Eden Suarez-Santos Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — The Judicial Bar Council cannot still declare the position of ousted Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno as vacant since the Supreme Court still has no final decision on the quo warranto petition against her. This was confirmed by Oriental Mindoro Representative Reynaldo Umali, one of the JBC members processing the nominations and application on the said position. The official said the agency is yet to […]
(Eagle News) — Over 1,000 successful bar candidates are set to take their oath as new lawyers at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City on Friday, June 1. The 1,719 who will be sworn in are composed of those who passed the 2016 bar exams but were unable to take their oath last year, and some of those who passed the 2017 bar exams. Over 1000, or 1,724 out of 6,748 law graduates passed […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service (Eagle News) – Various judges and court employees association on Monday (May 21) called on the public, the media, lawyers’ groups and other sectors to respect the decision of the Supreme Court which ousted Maria Lourdes Sereno as chief justice. In a statement titled “Nag-iisang Korte Supreme, Sumulong Ka,” these various groups representing judges and court employees nationwide stressed that it is only the Supreme Court which has […]
(Eagle News)— Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman on Friday, May 18, said the eight Supreme Court justices who voted to grant the quo warranto petition nullifying the appointment of Maria Lourdes Sereno as Chief Justice “deserve to be impeached.” In a statement, Lagman said this was the rule “if magistrates who are sworn to uphold the Constitution, subvert the very fundamental law by arrogating jurisdiction over an impeachable official.” In this case, he said he believes Associate Justices […]
(Eagle News) — The Palace “respects” the move of at least 13 senators to urge the Supreme Court to review its decision nullifying the appointment of Maria Lourdes Sereno as Chief Justice. In a press conference on Thursday, May 17, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said opposition senators Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, Senators Antonio Trillanes IV, Risa Hontiveros, Bam Aquino, Francis Pangilinan and Leila de Lima; and Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III, Senators Francis Escudero, […]
(Eagle News) — The House of Representatives said that it still needed to wait for the final decision of the Supreme Court on the appeal that ousted Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno planned to file on the quo warranto case before it can decide on its next move. The statement came after the Supreme Court favored the quo warranto petition, which resulted in Sereno’s ouster. In an interview with DZEC Radyo Agila, House Justice Committee […]
