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Hilario Davide and seven
Associate Justices On June 2, 2003, the deposed President Joseph Estrada filed an impeachment lawsuit in the House of Representatives against the then Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr. and seven associate justices for allegedly conspiring to remove Estrada and participate in Edsa II. This was dismissed four months later by the House of Representatives justice commission due to insufficient funds.
However, on October 23, 2003, deputies Gilberto Teodoro Jr. and Félix Fuentebella filed another accusation against Davide alone, for betraying public trust and bribery in accordance with the Judicial Development Fund. Although the complaint was supported by more than a third of the House, the Supreme Court voted 13 to 0 that the complaint was unconstitutional because it violated the provision that no impeachment proceedings be initiated against the same official more than once in a year .
Renato Corona
On December 12, 2011, the Chamber voted to impeach then-Supreme Court Chief Renato Corona and stand trial for treason of public trust, culpable violation of the Constitution, and bribery. Corona was later ousted by the Senate on May 29, 2012, after a six-month impeachment trial for discrepancies in his statements of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN).
The Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, determined that Corona failed to include some $ 2.4 million in bank deposits, in addition to an allegedly combined amount worth P80.7 million, in its SALN from 2002 to 2010. Corona was named in May 2010 by outgoing President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Maria Lourdes Pacifica
In August 2017, two impeachment complaints were filed against then-Supreme Court Chief Maria Lourdes Sereno: the first from Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption and Vanguard of the Philippine Constitution Inc., while the other from attorney Larry Gardon.
But it was only Gadon’s complaint that obtained the backing of the members of the Chamber on August 30, 2017, for alleged betrayal of public trust for the “capricious” and “excessive” purchase by the Supreme Court of the latter Toyota Land Cruiser model valued at P5 .1 million, as well as its alleged failure to disclose “exorbitant attorneys’ fees” that allegedly amount to $ 745,000, or P37 million. On March 8, 2018, voting 38-2, the House of Representatives justice committee found probable cause to indict Sereno.
Two months later, on May 11, the Supreme Court met in a special session and deliberated on the quo warranto petition filed by Attorney General José Cálida for not presenting all of his financial statements to the Judicial and Lawyers Council when he applied for the main position. . in the judiciary.
The Constitution establishes that the president of the Supreme Court can be removed from office by impeachment in Congress, but associate judges Noel Tijam, Teresita Leonardo-de Castro, Samuel Mártires, Andrés Reyes Jr., Alexander Gesmundo, Lucas Bersamin, Diosdado Peralta and Francis Jardeleza voted to grant the quo warranto petition. Six magistrates, including the president of the interim court Antonio Carpio, voted against. –Inquirer investigation
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