Planting a dagger into the heart of the Constitution

Impeaching the CJ?

Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno’s unusual performance at the Oral Arguments before the Supreme Court on the disqualification case of presidential candidate Grace Poe Llamanzares has apparently so scandalized some legal practitioners that one lawyer has asked me, a non-lawyer, whether, in my judgment, she has not qualified herself for impeachment. I do not have the competence to answer the question, but my inability to do so does not alter the fact that it has been asked; between now and after the next President assumes office on June 30, some people might want to answer it competently.