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Presidential Legal Adviser Salvador Panelo, on the other hand, disclosed that Associate Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo is the personal choice of President Duterte to be the next chief justice of the Supreme Court.
“As a matter of SOP (standard operating procedure), judicial appointments are confirmed by my office only after they have been received by the Supreme Court. Given the long holiday, the earliest a judicial Appointment can be received by the Court would be this Monday. FYI,” Roque said in a statement Friday, April 2.
The vacancy in the Supreme Court’s top post came after the retirement of Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta on March 22, a position he held for almost one year and five months.
Duterte named Alexander Gesmundo as 27th Chief Justice Panelo By VIRGIL LOPEZ, GMA News
Published April 2, 2021 1:49pm President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Supreme Court (SC) Associate Justice Alexander Gesmundo as Chief Justice, a Malacañang official said Friday. “Yes,” Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo said in a text message when asked to confirm Gesmundo’s appointment. Panelo added that Gesmundo was Duterte’s “personal choice” to succeed Diosdado Peralta, who left the judiciary on March 27, one year ahead of his compulsory retirement. Duterte’s spokesperson Harry Roque neither confirmed nor denied Gesmundo s appointment. “As a matter of SOP (standard operating procedure), judicial appointments are confirmed by my office only after they have been received by the Supreme Court. Given the long holiday, the earliest a judicial appointment can be received by the Court would be this Monday (April 5),” Roque said.
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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.
CJ search: Gesmundo has ‘no objections’ to releasing SALNs, Bernabe limits it to summaries The third nominee, Associate Justice Ramon Paul Hernando, was not asked about his position on releasing the SALNs of the members of the judiciary, but he is the ponente or author of a recent ruling that says the document should not be a ‘weapon for political vendetta.’ BY CARMELA FONBUENA AND STANLEY BUENAFE GAJETE March 13, 2021 | 08:00:00 AM
Supreme Court Associate Justice Alexander Gesmundo has “no objections” to releasing his Statements of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (SALNs) as long as the request is “legitimate,” he said on Friday, March 12.