IV. REFORMING THE JBC The question is whether the JBC has satisfactorily or merely perfunctorily performed its constitutional duty.. BY CARMELA FONBUENA April 30, 2021 | 11:30:00 PM
Court observers said many of the judiciary s problems are rooted in the JBC, the body that vets nominees to the judiciary.
“When we talk about independence, we’re not only talking about the independence of the SC but the independence of the JBC itself,” said Manuel.
The 1987 Constitution created the JBC to limit the president’s discretion to the list the body submits
It changed the process under Martial Law, when Marcos made all court appointments, and under the 1935 Constitution, when the president nominated the justices and the legislature confirmed them.
CJ Search: Duterte’s appointees address killings, war on drugs, and church-state divide The Judicial and Bar Council interviewed nominees for chief justice on March 13. The public interviews also covered the existence of so-called ‘search warrant factories,’ the judiciary’s backlog of cases, and the high court’s restrictions on the release of magistrates wealth statements. BY CARMELA FONBUENA AND STANLEY BUENAFE GAJETE March 14, 2021 | 11:00:00 PM
The Judicial and Bar Council’s (JBC) public interviews of the nominees for chief justice on Friday, March 13, provided a rare opportunity for two appointees of President Rodrigo Duterte to weigh in on several issues hounding the administration.
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This developed as Deputy Speaker and Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus Rodriguez assured the public that Leonen will not meet the same fate as former Associate Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno who was removed in 2017.
Rodriguez, former dean of the San Sebastian College of Law, said the House of Representatives will insist on observing the constitutional provision in relation to impeachment, adding that a quo warranto proceeding in the High Court should be discontinued.
“And so I believe that it was a mistake for the Supreme Court to proceeding with the quo warranto especially because at that time Congress had already been hearing the impeachment,” the Mindanaoan lawmaker stressed, referring to the removal of Sereno via quo warranto petition that was decided by her SC peers.