{"id":21135,"date":"2014-08-06T00:18:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=21135"},"modified":"2014-08-08T00:20:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T16:20:48","slug":"sereno-could-be-impeached-lawmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/06\/sereno-could-be-impeached-lawmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Sereno could be impeached \u2013 lawmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21137\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21137\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Chief_Justice_Maria_Lourdes_Sereno.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21137\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Chief_Justice_Maria_Lourdes_Sereno-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Chief_Justice_Maria_Lourdes_Sereno-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Chief_Justice_Maria_Lourdes_Sereno.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Citing grounds on the possible misuse of the Judiciary Development Fund, lawmakers said Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno could be impeached.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere appears to be misuse of the JDF, and if that is confirmed in the subsequent hearings, then that is at least technical malversation\u2026 that is graft and corruption and grounds for impeachment,\u201d Oriental Mindoro Rep. Reynaldo Umali said, as quoted in a Philippine Star report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have our different roles and functions, we can compel her to attend the inquiry through a subpoena as the sole administrator and disburser of the JDF,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Umali, vice chairman of the House committee on justice who is also investigating the possible misuse of the JDF, said that the funds may have been used on purposes other than what is provided by law.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that such use might be the grounds for Sereno\u2019s impeachment, if proven and backed by evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe JDF is collected, appropriated and disbursed exclusively and solely by the Chief Justice and that is wielding all the powers of all three branches of government,\u201d Umali said.<\/p>\n<p>Umali was also among the House prosecutors who lead the impeachment of former Chief Justice Renato Corona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Citing grounds on the possible misuse of the Judiciary Development Fund, lawmakers said Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[6408,7201,7200],"class_list":["post-21135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-impeachment","tag-jdf","tag-sereno","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21135","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}