FRANCISCO S. TATAD
FRANCISCO S. TATAD

MANY of our Supreme Court justices seem to believe they have the right, the duty and the power to judicially remove the Chief Justice, whom President Rodrigo Duterte desperately wants out, in patent disregard of the Constitution, which provides that an impeachable officer, such as the President, the Vice President, members of the Supreme Court, members of the constitutional commissions and the Ombudsman, may be removed only upon conviction in a Senate impeachment trial, after having been impeached by the House of Representatives, with the concurrence of no less than two-thirds of all the senators.

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