This is the problem of not defending the supremacy of the constitution at all times. All are vulnerable to the whims caprices by arbitrary tyrannical rules of men, even if you are the chief justice or any justice in this context much more to a common man. These victims could invoke formidable defenses on jurisprudence, laws and the constitution but no one listens. What matters is what the proponents arbitrarily want. They are in power and they have the numbers.
What can the lone chief justice or Justice Leonen or whoever is next do in this particular case. It is just about time that the remaining justices restore back the supremacy of the constitution over all laws, codes, regulations, letters of instructions at all times. These justices may consider visiting the Cudia Dismissal case and correct the wrong they have done on placing the PMA Honor Code on a pedestal higher than the constitution as in 2, where 11 of you quashed the constitution placing the PMA Honor Code reigns over the constitution, namely: CJ Sereno, Justices Carpio, Velasco Jr., Leonardo-De Castro, Bersamin, Del Castillo, Villarama Jr., Perez, Mendoza, Reyes, Perlas Bernabe and Leonen. No one dissents.
Justice Leonen knows now. Justice Leonen while invoking the constitution to defend CJ Sereno but ignoring it in Cudia 3 lost traction due to lack of coherence and consistency. If only these justices live with what they teach in law schools and kept it in their hearts and minds the importance and significance of this doctrine 4 Sereno, Leonen and others next would not be hand tied resolving this conflict. It is good at least from the word of a young and new officer of the court who gave air to the doctrine5 to keep it living and shame be with the magistrates ignoring efforts to save it from dying.
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The House of Representatives has set the wheels of the impeachment complaint against Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen in motion. Speaker Lord Allan Jay Velasco sent a letter last March 25 to House Majority Floor Leader Ferdinand Martin Romualdez asking that the impeachment complaint be included in the chamber’s order of business. Velasco endorsed the copies of the complaint which was filed last year by journalist Edwin M. Cordevilla. Leonen is being charged with betrayal of public trust and culpable violation of the Constitution. The complaint alleges that the magistrate did not file his Statements of Assets Liabilities and Net Worth while he was teaching at the University of the Philippines, and had lobbied for the renovation of a cottage at the Supreme Court compound in Baguio City that was assigned to him, at a cost of P5 million. The complaint drew extensively from several articles published by The Manila Times that detailed Leonen’s misdeeds.In filing the complaint, Cordevilla was represented by lawyer Larry Gadon. Ilocos Norte Rep. Angelo Barba was among the first to endorse the complaint, saying Cordevilla, his constituent, sought his help.
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