Sereno must resign

standards of propriety when she advised a lower court on a matter that could reach the Supreme information against a judicial nominee, and failed to recuse herself from the deliberations even if she was the main oppositor. This is not to mention her repeated at- tempts to undermine the power of the court administrator.

These are offenses that she committed while she was already in the judiciary and are now being assessed by the House judiciary com

Sereno’s defenders claim that these are procedural lapses, and are mere administrative misdemeanors that do not rise up to the level of a culpable violation of the Constitution, treason, bribery, graft and corruption, other high crimes and betrayal of public trust, which are the grounds for impeachment.

However, as it turns out, Sereno may not even have to go through the impeachment process for the people of the Philippines to assert that its Chief Justice is patently

And this has nothing to do with the fact that she allegedly failed her psychological test.

It has to do with her reported failure to file her statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN) for 17 years while she was still teaching at the University of the Philippines. For the 20 years that she worked at the state university, from 1986 to 2006, Sereno