MANILA, Philippines - If all else fails, Ilocos Norte Rep. Rodolfo Fariñas will subpoena records of the alleged concealed assets and the psychiatric report of Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno.
Fariñas vowed to make the move following reports that some parties are finding it hard to secure the supposed public documents from the Supreme Court as well as from the independent screening body Judicial and Bar Council (JBC).
“If the SC will not give copies of the SALN of the Chief Justice, or the JBC her alleged psychiatric report or the BIR, her ITRs, the House committee on justice could subpoena them, if and when it reaches that stage of the impeachment proceedings,” Fariñas told Larry Gadon, the lawyer who declared he would initiate the impeachment complaint against Sereno.