{"id":141395,"date":"2017-12-22T09:13:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T14:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=141395"},"modified":"2017-12-22T09:13:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T14:13:03","slug":"aguirre-to-testify-against-chief-justice-sereno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/22\/aguirre-to-testify-against-chief-justice-sereno\/","title":{"rendered":"Aguirre to testify against Chief Justice Sereno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standing by his claims that Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno has purportedly delayed the transfer of cases against the ISIS-inspired Maute group, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II will testify in the impeachment proceedings against her.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving an invitation from the House justice committee to appear in the hearing, Aguirre said he will be attending on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The chief justice is currently facing an impeachment complaint filed by lawyer Lorenzo &#8220;Larry&#8221; Gadon for allegedly delaying Aguirre\u2019s request to transfer Maute cases outside Mindanao.<\/p>\n<p>According to the impeachment complaint, &#8220;Sereno has been delaying the issuance and release of the resolution because she failed to get a majority vote on her desire to keep the Maute and similar cases in Cagayan de Oro City, to the detriment of the service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Indeed, the intentional delay on the part of respondent Sereno to issue and release the much-awaited resolution, only because she has lost in the vote, is another count of culpable violation of the Constitution,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Aguirre said his testimony for tomorrow\u2019s hearing would focus on his actions in connection with his request.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 11\/ 27\/17<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing by his claims that Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno has purportedly delayed the transfer of cases against the ISIS-inspired &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}