THE Committee on Justice of the House of Representatives heaved a sigh of relief after the Supreme Court granted the quo warranto petition ousting Maria Lourdes Sereno as Chief Justice, admitting that the Senate impeachment court may not have voted to convict Sereno.

“I feel so relieved that we need not go through the protracted and litigious process of a Senate impeachment trial. There are Senators who made comments that they want us to send the Articles of Impeachment to them immediately, and its possible that they will defy the Supreme Court anyway because they feel they have they (Senators) have the jurisdiction [on removing a Chief Justice],” Rep. Reynaldo Umali of Oriental Mindoro, chairman of the justice committee, said in a radio interview on Sunday.

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