Practice question
A law reorganizes a court system. Its express purpose and established effect are to terminate incumbent judges’ tenure solely because they issued unpopular decisions, while immediately recreating the same courts under new names. Sponsors concede that security of tenure is undermined but invoke Congress’s power over lower courts. Which constitutional response is strongest?
- Congress’s organizational power overrides every tenure safeguard.
- Renaming always prevents any constitutional inquiry.
- The law conflicts with the express bar on judicial reorganization that undermines members’ security of tenure.
- The law is valid if only one judge objects.
- Every judicial reorganization is forbidden, even one preserving tenure.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353 Article VIII, Section 2.
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