The Supreme Court has issued a status quo ante order against the “money ban” resolution of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) that would have prevented the withdrawal and the carrying of large amounts of cash before and during the elections on Monday.
The spokesperson for the Supreme Court on Thursday bristled at an Inquirer inquiry about the grade the son of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno got in the 2012 bar examination.
With Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno away on a four-day official trip to the United States, the Supreme Court magistrates who had boycotted the regular Monday flag-raising ceremony since she took office attended the rite.
Sri Lanka’s parliament Friday began an impeachment hearing against the country’s chief justice, defying a Supreme Court request for a suspension of proceedings, official sources told AFP.
Manuel Araullo was appointed as the country’s third chief justice on Nov. 1, 1921, upon the death of Chief Justice Victorino Mapa. He received his Bachelor of Laws from the University of Santo Tomas, where he became a professor. He died in Manila on July 26, 1924.
The Sri Lanka government said Thursday it had started the process to impeach the country’s chief justice, accusing her of overstepping her limits in the culmination of a drawn-out conflict between the judiciary and the government.
The Supreme Court dismissed the petitions questioning the validity of the impeachment complaint against former chief justice Renato Corona.
Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno issued last Friday a memorandum reminding all employees at the Supreme Court to attend the flag-raising ceremony every Monday morning.
Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno has sought a review of the process and procedures of the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC), including the psychological evaluation, in screening applicants to vacant positions in the judiciary.
President Benigno Aquino III has no plans to coast along with the recent spike in his ratings, saying he was not yet through making more bold moves to further advance his “tuwid na daan(straight path)” campaign until the end of his term.
Jose Miguel Arroyo, the husband of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, wants Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno to inhibit herself from the case pending before the Supreme Court involving the couple’s questioning of the watch-list orders issued against them by Justice Secretary Leila De Lima last year.
Senator Joker Arroyo hopes Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno will not mistake “God’s will” for infallibility.
The result of the psychiatric and psychological examination of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno is not a public record but can probably be made as such, if in case, the newly appointed Chief Justice permits its release following the alleged leakage of the file, lawyer Jose Mejia, a Judicial and Bar Council member representing academe, said Tuesday.
