(Eagle News)–Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno has asked the Supreme Court to order Associate Justice Samuel Martires to inhibit from the quo warranto petition filed against her.
According to Sereno, this was because Martires exhibited “actual bias.”
Proof of this, he said, were Martires’ comments about during the oral arguments set for the petition.
“With due respect, it appears that Justice Martires has formed an opinion on the competence of respondent (Sereno) to serve as Chief Justice on some basis other than what he learned from his participation in this case,” Sereno said.
Apart from Martires, Sereno has asked for Associate Justices Teresita de Castro, Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin, Francis Jardeleza, and Noel Tijam to inhibit.
