THE chief lawyer for the Philippine government seems to have raised the bar in his undeclared war against the country’s top magistrate.

Solicitor General Francis Jardeleza on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court (SC) in a letter to disqualify Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Aranal-Sereno from final deliberations of the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC).

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