Practice question
An executive official says that because judicial employees are within civil-service coverage, all authority to appoint and discipline them automatically transfers from the Supreme Court to that official. The argument relies only on coverage, without any valid constitutional basis for the transfer. Which assessment is strongest?
- Civil-service scope does not itself displace the Constitution’s separate assignment of judicial staffing and administrative supervision.
- Coverage always makes every court subordinate to an executive personnel manager.
- Every public employee must be appointed by the same private person.
- The Supreme Court’s express Article VIII powers disappear by implication.
- Judicial independence means no applicable civil-service law exists.
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article IX-B, Section 2(1)-(3): https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
- 1987 Constitution, Article VIII, Sections 5(6) and 6: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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