BULOK NA CHIEF JUSTICE! HEAVEN HELP US!

 CJ issues fake SC resolution  (FROM DAILY TRIBUNE)

Calls in sick, fearing rebuke by SC justices over spurious en banc paper

 

The Chief Justice of the Philippines is in hot legal and constitutional water.

President Aquino’s favorite Supreme Court Justice, Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno, the other day was caught treading the crooked path, as she was found to have issued an en banc resolution on her own, while stating that the high court en banc issued a resolution last Nov. 27, on the reopening of the Regional Trial Court Administration Office in Region 7, and that the Court resolved to ratify the action of the Chief Justice.
There was a big problem, however. The Court en banc never issued that resolution, and  the issue would have been brought up, followed by a heated discussion if not heated confrontation between the justices and Sereno. But Sereno tried to evade the confrontation as she called in sick yesterday, fearing the wrath of the SC justices over what can be termed an illegal and unconstitutional act, which is impeachable.
There is, however, doubt that Aquino would have the House of Representatives impeach his Palace-friendly Chief Justice.
Sereno put off an appointment with a scorching hot en banc conference with her fellow magistrates last Tuesday, all of whom  were scheduled to take up the circumstances in connection with an unauthorized SC resolution supposedly passed by an unseen hand in the head magistrate’s office.
Sereno took an unceremonious absence during the session which included in its agenda the resolution ordering the opening of a Regional Court Administration Offie (RCAO) in the Visayas.
The same spurious resolution had Sereno appointing Judge Geraldine Faith Econg to be the Officer in Charge of RCAO Region 7.
The resolution, which bore the signature of the clerk of court had magistrates up in arms as it had not been  authorized beforehand by the 14-man man court.
There was also a denial that the SC en banc appointed Econg as officer in charge of RCAO Region  7.
Instead of facing the music,Sereno issued a Special Order No. 1384 designating Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio as Acting Chief Justice .
“In view of the sick leave of absence of the undersigned, Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio is hereby designated as Acting Chief Justice, with authority to exercise the powers and prerogatives of and pertaining to the position of Chief Justice on matters that cannot wait for the Justice, effective today, Dec.  4, 2012, until the undersigned reports back to work,” Sereno’s Order read.
Earlier, a broadsheet reported that Sereno was rebuffed by fellow magistrates whom she had personally approached  to ratify the order . Among the offices she reportedly visited were the chambers of Justices Teresita Leonardo-De Castro, Arturo Brion and Martin Villarama Jr.
The Justices, however, have refused to play along with the ratification of Sereno’s lone act of issuing the resolution without the authorization of the SC en banc to revive   and reopen of RCAO in Region 7 in Cebu City.
It was Justice De Castro who wrote a letter to the  SC en banc questioning the resolution issued by Sereno without authority from the en banc.
The court has designated Justice Presbitero Velasco to talk to Econg not to perform her duties and assume her post.
Sereno went to Cebu last Thursday for the re-launching and re-opening of RCAO where invitations were earlier sent out to the court.
It was the first time for Sereno not to  attend Tuesday the en banc session of the Supreme Court. It was speculated that Sereno would be facing great embarassment at having the effrontery to come up with the spurious resolution and still expected to have the same ratified by the SC justices.
The Justices of the SC were said to have been surprised at how Sereno suddenly got sick after it was reported she was lobbying Monday when she personally went to the chambers of Justices De Castro, Brion and Villarama.
Sereno also lobbied with other justices over the telephone to support her and not to revoke the reopening of the Regional Court Administration Office Region 7.
The Justices of the SC last weekend denied Sereno’s order that a resolution be issued ratifying her act for the revival and reopening of RCAO in Region 7 in Cebu City.
They also denied that they allowed Sereno to appoint Judge  Econg to be the Officer-in-Charge of RCAO Region 7.
During Tuesday’s en banc session presided by Carpio, the issue as to the RCAO was still pursued.
The SC en banc has decided to put on hold the assumption of Econg as RCAO head.
An earlier report said the magistrates were fuming mad and were quoted as having said that  Sereno is “fooling the court and the public.”
The court insider said that the chief justice would be in big trouble if the SC en banc will “revoke” or “recall” the resolution she issued.
Much earlier, when it was a hot issue for Sereno and the other justices to bare their statements of assets and liabilities (SALn), Sereno issued a copy of her SALn, which emanated not from the office of the Clerk of Court, who is the officer who is empowered to release the SALns to the public, with an en banc’s order, but from her office.
It was evident from her SALn released by her office, that there were newer entries, made to explain the big fees in dollars that she got as a legal researcher for the government’s legal panel in the Piatco arbitration case.
She later explained that the “corrected copy” was the one released by the clerk of court, which had no corrections, and was said to be the SALn that she had submitted to the clerk of court.

The appointment made by Aquino of Sereno, then a junior justice to the top judicial post, has reportedly not been taken well by the senior justices, who have been demoralized.
Just recently, Aquino also appointed an outsider, former chief government panel negotiator for the Moro Islamic peace pact, Marvic Leonen.
It was also reported that his appointment was not taken well by the justices of the high court.            With PNA

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It seems that this country under NOY TARANTADO AQUINO will really go under the dogs.We definitely are ruled by juveniles and crazies that are not well versed in the rule of law, Constitution and sound administrative management. 

Left or Right, walang credibility and mga tao sa administrasyong Aquino kasi lahat puro mga kawatan, sira ang ulo at unstable-minded, if there is even such a word.

 God help us from Noy Aquino, Cojuangcos and from Florencio Abad, They are the cause of many people's misery.