Leaders of 57 people organizations trooped to the Senate on Wednesday to formally call on the senators to ask the Supreme Court to suspend its quo warranto proceedings and let the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno proceed.
In a letter addressed to individual senators, the Coalition for Justice appealed that lawmakers should stand up against grave miscarriage of justice being perpetuated by the SC which took cognizance of the quo warranto petition filed against Sereno by Solicitor General Jose Calida.
“If the Senate, by tradition the more independent chamber of Congress, is defanged of its powers of oversight, Philippine democracy is imperiled by the possible green light for a weapon that the executive department can use against independent judicial officials and those in charge of constitutional bodies,” it said.
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