Practice question
A former Chief Justice leaves the principal office but demands to remain JBC Chairman personally for four more years, invoking the term applicable to regular members. Which is correct?
- The ex officio chair follows the principal office; the regular-members’ term does not create a personal continuing chairmanship
- Every former Chief Justice remains concurrent Chairman
- The four-year rule converts every ex officio seat into private property
- A private promise overrides the Constitution
- The Council must have no Chairman until a general election
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/3/353; Articles VII Section 16 and VIII Sections 5(6), 8.
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