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I must give credit to Secretary of Justice Leila de Lima for her unabashed sense of self-importance in accepting her nomination as Supreme Court chief justice.De Lima knows she will not be accepted by insiders of the Supreme Court for defying a temporary restraining order on a watch-list order she had issued to prevent former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from leaving the country.
Still, de Lima claims she is fit to lead the Judiciary, which is supposed to be an independent branch of government.
I am flabbergasted when I think about the fact that she consulted the appointing power, President Noynoy Aquino, before she accepted her nomination. Why would she do that? Is that her version of independence and probity?
But as I said, there should be no surprises under President Aquino.
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