Practice question
A regular JBC Member receives an appointment purporting to last for life. The ordinary, rather than initial staggered, term is involved. Which is correct under Section 8(2)?
- The appointing document can replace any constitutional term.
- The Constitution prescribes a four-year regular term, not lifetime tenure.
- All regular Members serve only at the next litigant’s pleasure.
- Only private donors fix the term.
- The Constitution states no term at all.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353 Article VIII, Sections 8–9.
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