WE congratulate Dean Marvic Leonen on his appointment to the Supreme Court. He deserves it. That he is even younger than Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno will help guarantee that President Benigno Aquino’s wishes for the Supreme Court get carried out.
The official Palace statement released yesterday keynoted the facts that “President Aquino views his appointment as a contribution to his vision of an empowered, independent, and reformist Judiciary.”
It also said that “The appointment of Dean Leonen is one that the President views as a lasting legacy of his administration, consistent with his desire of a Judiciary imbued with the highest standards of independence, probity and integrity. A revitalized Supreme Court, with the renewed confidence and public trust of our people, is essential to the fulfillment of the President’s Social Contract with the Filipino People: a truly impartial judicial system that delivers equal justice to rich or poor.”
We agree with the President in his hopes for a judiciary “imbued with the highest standards of independence, probity and integrity” and his wish for “a truly impartial judicial system that delivers equal justice to rich or poor.”
Our prayers are for Justice Leonen, Chief Justice Sereno and those in the Supreme Court who were appointed by former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to unite in making not only the High Court itself but all levels of the judiciary “imbued with the highest standards of independence, probity and integrity” so that we have “a truly impartial judicial system that delivers equal justice to rich or poor.”
Justice Leonen and Bangsamore issues
What worries us is that, as the Palace emphasized in its statement, “Dean Leonen had contributed significantly to the cause of a just, dignified, and lasting peace with our Muslim brothers and sisters while keeping with the spirit and letter of the Constitution.”
The Framework Agreement on Bangsamoro has been criticized as being unconstitutional in some parts.
Will Justice Leonen recuse himself from discussions about its constitutionality?
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