Impeachment trial of a chief justice redux

For a democratic country where the impeachment of a Supreme Court chief justice was once considered unthinkable, but happened anyway, it now appears more than likely that another episode similar to that is coming. We may again face in the near future the impeachment of a sitting chief justice by the House of Representatives, and her subsequent trial by the Senate.

These prospects loom on the horizon because two impeachment cases filed separately by two different complainants against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno have been quickly endorsed by the required number of House legislators. Second, perhaps more significant, these complaints as laid out by the complainants, appear to have solid basis in both the law and the facts.