Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Aranal-Sereno has clipped the voting powers of the associate justices of the Supreme Court (SC) by doing away with the traditional deliberation on the selection of the top candidates for the post vacated by Associate Justice Robert Abad.

Sereno said she made the decision purportedly upon the request of “several justices.”

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