Practice question
A municipal trial-court employee handles court records and claims to be outside Supreme Court administrative supervision because she is not a judge. Which answer follows Maceda and Article VIII, Section 6?
- Court personnel are expressly covered; nonjudicial rank does not create the claimed exemption.
- Only magistrates can be supervised constitutionally.
- Court clerks become executive-department personnel by performing records work.
- A clerk may choose a different supervising branch personally.
- The employee is immune from every accountability process.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article VIII, Sections 5(6), 6 and 11: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
- Maceda v. Vasquez, G.R. No. 102781, April 22, 1993, main decision: https://lawphil.net/judjuris/juri1993/apr1993/gr_102781_1993.html
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