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(Eagle News) — Chief Justice-on leave Maria Lourdes Sereno said she has sought the inhibition of Associate Justice Teresita Leonardo De Castro from the quo warranto case filed against her. Sereno made the revelation in a statement on Friday, April 6, two days after she already filed a motion for inhibition against Associate Justices Noel Tijam, Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin and Francis Jardeleza. According to Sereno, in the 30-page motion filed through her lawyers […]
by Damian Wroclavsky with Sebastian Smith in Rio de Janeiro © Agence France-Presse BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil’s former president and current election frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva looked increasingly likely to face prison Wednesday after a key judge on the divided Supreme Court voted against allowing him to delay a sentence for corruption. After more than five hours of deliberations, the Supreme Court justices had voted 5-1 in favor of denying Lula his request […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service (Eagle News) — Supreme Court Chief Justice-on leave Maria Lourdes Sereno is asking four of the tribunal’s justices to “inhibit” from the quo warranto petition filed against her by the Office of the Solicitor General. Sereno filed a motion for inhibition against Associate Justices Noel Tijam, Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin and Francis Jardeleza. Justice Tijam was the justice assigned to write whatever will be the decision on 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 […]
But PNP says that while it “respects” SC order, it will “take” OSG’s “legal recommendation” on the matter (Eagle News) — The Palace on Wednesday said the government has “no other alternative except to comply” with the Supreme Court order to submit reports on the administration’s drug war. But Philippine National Police spokesperson Chief Supt. John Bulalacao said that while the PNP respected the SC order to submit the documents within 15 days upon notice, […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service (Eagle News) – The Supreme Court set the oral arguments for the quo warranto petition against Chief Justice on-leave Maria Lourdes Sereno on April 10 at the tribunal’s session hall in Baguio City, and directed her to “personally appear” in the hearing. On its first en banc session, the Supreme Court set the hearing for the oral arguments on Tuesday, April 10 at 2 p.m., as the high court […]
(Eagle News)–The Supreme Court has denied the government’s petition against its December 2017 order to submit reports on the war on drugs. Theodore Te, SC spokesperson, said the SC denied Solicitor General Jose Calida’s argument submitting the reports would compromise the safety of informants and police operations, and directed the government, including Philippine National Police Chief Ronald dela Rosa, to submit them within a 15-day notice. The required reports include a list of persons killed in […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice has asked the Supreme Court to transfer the trial venue of the cases filed against Atty. Augusto Eric Isidoro, the alleged owner of the Catanduanes property where a shabu laboratory stood, and his co-accused to any court in the National Capital Region instead. In his letter to Acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre said this was because the “accused in these cases are politically connected […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal, will start the manual recount of ballots from the three pilot provinces covered by the electoral protest filed by former Senator Bongbong Marcos against Vice President Leni Robredo on Monday, April 2. The PET made this announcement as they gave the media a tour on Tuesday of the SC Court of Appeals gymnasium, where the recount of 5418 ballots from […]
(Eagle News) – The Judicial and Bar Council issued a certification that Acting Supreme Court Chief Justice Antonio Carpio had submitted all the required Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) contrary to the claim of on-leave Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. Sereno, in her comment to the quo warranto petition filed against her before the tribunal, claimed that Carpio was among the associate justices and other lawyers who were listed as applicants […]
(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 […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Ipabubusisi umano ng Kamara ang mga bank account ni Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. Yan ay sakaling umabot na sa Senado ang impeachment laban kay Sereno na inaakusahang hindi umano nagdeklara sa kaniyang Statement of Assets Liabilities at Net worth (SALN) ng tunay na yaman at mga ari-arian nito. Ayon kay Ako-Bicol Partylist Representative Alfredo Garbin, isa sa ikinukunsiderang maging miyembro ng panel of prosecutors. Hihilingin nila sa […]
