ANTONIO P. CONTRERAS SUPPORTERS of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno make it appear that an attack on her is an attack on the entire Supreme Court, or even the entire judiciary. They insist that the motives of the Associate Justices who testified about their personal knowledge of the alleged misdeeds of the Chief Justice have seriously undermined the collegiality and have permanently damaged the integrity of the Supreme Court. They argue that what these justices have raised are administrative issues that should have been internally addressed within the court, and where their internal rules should have been invoked. A close perusal of the internal rules of the Supreme Court, however, does...
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