Members of the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) have thwarted the apparently latest move of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno in what an unimpeachable source said was her “grand plan” to railroad the nomination of Solicitor General Francis Jardeleza for a vacant seat in the Supreme Court (SC).
During a meeting with the JBC on Thursday, Sereno was said to have asked the members of the council to proceed with the voting on June 30 with or without Jardeleza from a shortlist for the post vacated by Associate Justice Roberto Abad, who retired last May.
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