Solgen steps up fight for SC post

SOLICITOR General Francis Jardeleza has stepped up his fight not only with Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, who had allegedly railroaded his nomination to deny him a shot at a vacancy in the Supreme Court (SC), but also with the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC).

In his petition for certiorari and mandamus with application for a temporary restraining order (TRO), Jardeleza on Friday asked the SC “to declare Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Aranal-Sereno and the JBC “as having acted in grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction in not including [him] in the shortlist of nominees transmitted to the President on June 30, 2014.”