Chief Justice and Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) Chairman Maria Lourdes Sereno has been criticized by justices of the Supreme Court after she clipped the magistrates’ voting power on a vacant SC post.

The justices said Sereno disregarded Internal Rules of the JBC and a long-time existing tradition on the power of the SC justices to vote and make their recommendation prior to voting by the JBC on the vacancy.

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