Carpio urges SC to move on from impeachment

ACTING Chief Justice Antonio Carpio rallied Supreme Court employees on Monday to unite and move on from the impeachment trial of erstwhile Chief Justice Renato Corona.
Corona was removed from office for failure to declare his peso and dollar accounts in his statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN).
In his first interview with the media since Corona’s impeachment, Carpio said the SC employees, and the public, in general, should learn from the lessons of the impeachment.
“We have to move forward. We have to learn from the lessons of the impeachment and I think we can do the job. There are a lot of professionals here in the SC, most of the people here,” he said during the book launching event that marked the 111th anniversary of the SC.
Carpio also belied claims that the judiciary has lost its independence with Corona’s impeachment and with President Aquino’s impending appointment of Corona’s replacement.
He said the impeachment complaint was lodged only against Corona and not against the entire court.
“We have all our individual opinions on that, but if you look at the impeachment charge, it’s directed against one justice, it’s not directed against the entire Judiciary. I don’t think that’s the intention of the Constitution. When the Constitution provides that justices, other constitutional officers are subject to impeachment, it doesn’t mean that if an impeachment charge is filed against that person, the entire institution is also charged. The Constitution does not say that,” he said.
He said there is no basis for some quarters that the ouster of Corona sends a “chilling effect” on other magistrates of the high court. “I don’t know, it has no chilling effect on me,” Carpio said.
Following Corona’s ouster, Carpio sat as head of the tribunal being its next most senior magistrate.
He was also automatically nominated for the post, among four other justices. He likewise inhibited as ex-officio chairman of the Judicial and Bar Council, a body that screens and submits a list of nominees to the President to fill up vacant judicial posts.
The acting head of the SC also shrugged off allegations that Aquino’s appointment of the next chief justice will render the SC an adjunct of the executive branch has no basis.
“I don’t think that will be the case because a lot of the justices are really independent. Whoever is our chief justice, we will support, but we are also independent. It doesn’t mean that if the chief justice has a certain position, we will just follow. No, each one is an independent republic,” he said.
In order to erase the perception brought about by the impeachment of Corona that magistrates are wont to stash secret wealth, Carpio, as one of his first official acts, directed the SC’s Public Information Office to upload in the court’s official website the Commission on Audit’s 2010 report on the summary of the justices’ SALN, as well as the latest financial reports of the SC’s judiciary development fund (JDF) and special allotment fund (SAF) for transparency’s sake.
“The impeachment taught us lessons and I think we are learning from it. We have decided to release our SALNs and we have decided to make public our financial reports. Last week I directed that all these financial reports be uploaded in our website… So the court, in effect, has reacted to these charges for lack of transparency by being transparent,” he said.
Corona earlier accused the Aquino administration of undermining judicial independence in causing his removal from office, and urged his trial prosecutors and Aquino allies to also issue waivers in the confidentiality of their respective SALNs.
During his speech before SC employees, Carpio said the history of the SC as an institution was written “long after the heat of battle or the passion of the event has passed.”
He said that while the decisions of the SC are final in the legal sense, they are nevertheless subject to review by history.
Retired Chief Justice Reynato Puno, who was among the guests during the launching of the book the “History of the Supreme Court,” said the judiciary appears to be in disarray following the impeachment trial, but the incoming chief justice must lift the morale of the court.
“Some are disappointed, some are confused, some appear to be in a spiritual slump for they perceive a severely wounded judiciary after its collision with the political branches of government…,” Puno said.
“There is no better message to our judiciary than the supplication of Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos ‘to hold, hold, and hold.’ The SC has a life of its own. With the aid of the Divine Providence, it was established by the People and for as long as it serves the people, nothing will prevail against it. The Court may be down for the moment but with God’s grace, it will not stay down for long,” he added.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/2012/06/11/carpio-urges-sc-move-impeachment-226339

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