Practice question
Executive investigators collect extensive evidence of alleged judicial misconduct and give an RTC judge notice and a hearing. They then ask the President to order disciplinary dismissal solely because the President originally appointed the judge. No Supreme Court en banc disciplinary decision exists. Which is best?
- Evidence and a hearing automatically transfer constitutional jurisdiction.
- Presidential appointment makes the judicial disciplinary provision optional.
- The executive may dismiss if it sends the Court a copy afterward.
- Compliance with evidence and hearing requirements does not replace the constitutionally assigned Supreme Court en banc disciplinary authority.
- No lower-court judge can ever be disciplined.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353 Article VIII, Sections 6 and 11.
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