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Sereno ouster jolts a complacent public

Published by Ellen on May 13, 2018

Democracy in the Philippines did not die last Friday.

It was beaten up and trampled upon by President Rodrigo Duterte through his Solicitor General Jose Calida and executed by the eight justices of the Supreme Court (remember the names: Noel Tijam, Teresita Leonardo-de Castro, Samuel Martires, Andres Reyes Jr., Alexander Gesmundo, Lucas Bersamin, Diosdado Peralta and Francis Jardeleza) but we deeply value democratic values we will not let them kill it just like that.

What happened last Friday when the eight justices blatantly violated the Constitution they were sworn to uphold and ousted Supreme Court Justice Lourdes Sereno, whom Duterte publicly tagged as “enemy’” last April and declared that she be “out of the Supreme Court” was not a surprise but it was still traumatic.

Photo from Mae Paner’s Facebook

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Ang hamon kay Sereno: panatiliing independent ang Supreme Court

Published by Ellen on August 25, 2012

The first female Chief Justice in the Philippines
Sa edad na 52, kung manatiling malusog ang bagong hirang na Chief Justice na si Ma. Lourdes Sereno, siya manatili sa makapangyarihan na posisyun nay an hanggang 2030.

Labing-walong taon siya sa posisyun na yan.

Siyempre marami ang nag-aalala sa hindi magandang epekto ng sobrang tagal sa kapangyarihan ng isang opisyal. Na kahit anong galing ng isang tao, kapag masyadong matagal sa pusisyun, kung hindi naging abusado, ganun-na ganun na lang sa mahabang panahon.

Ngunit matalino si Sereno. Valedictorian at cum laude siya ng siya at nag-graduate sa University of the Philippines College of Law noong 1984. Pang-14 siya sa bar exams.

“My leadership is to be exercised to uphold the truth. It is to be exercised in favor of those who are weak, in order that justice in its true sense may be rendered.” -Sereno

http://verafiles.org/front/sereno-vision-courage-and-accountability/

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Sereno is new chief justice

Published by Ellen on August 24, 2012
She will be chief justice for 18 years.

Statement of Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda:

In the midst of this period of deep mourning for the loss of Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo, the President is cognizant of his constitutional duty to appoint the next Chief Justice of the Philippines. He has therefore decided to appoint Associate Justice Maria Lourdes Punzalan Aranal-Sereno as the 24th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Sen. Francis Pangilinan welcomed the appointment of Sereno as CJ. “We hope her relative youth and her passion and dynamism will invigorate the moribund and antiquated system of justice in the country. Nothing less than sweeping and comprehensive reforms will do to ensure that the crisis facing the judiciary will be overcome, and we will need the energy, creativity and stamina of a new generation of jurists to do just that.

“The President is confident that Chief Justice Sereno will lead the judiciary in undertaking much-needed reforms. We believe the Judicial Branch of government has a historic opportunity to restore our people’s confidence in the judicial system.”

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