Duterte names new SC associate justice
Credit to Author: CATHERINE S. VALENTE, TMT| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2019 11:09:53 +0000
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has appointed Court of Appeals Associate Justice Amy Javier to the Supreme Court (SC), Malacanang said.
Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea and former Special Assistant to the President Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go confirmed this in a text message to The Manila Times.
Javier replaced SC justice Noel Tijam who retired from his post on January 5. She is the second woman appointed by Duterte to the High Court after Rosmari Carandang in November last year.
During her interview with the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) in June last year, Javier defended Duterte, saying the President was not “an enemy of women.”
“I do not see the President as an enemy of women, I see him as a person who respects and loves his late mother, who he credits to have unconditionally loved him, and brought out the leader that he is,” Javier said.
“I would like to see him as a father who cares for his daughters, a person who founded several shelters for abused women and for children who are girls who are victims of incest,” she added.
Javier also disagreed that Duterte was a misogynist after the President said last year that his next appointee for the Ombudsman post would not be a woman.
“I see the President to be reasonable and I am confident that if I be accorded the honor of being nominated for the post, the President will pass upon my qualifications on the merits and not because I am a woman and not a man,” she said.
Javier said she was also in favor of Duterte’s campaign for federalism.
“It will improve the economy and judicial system in the country. The idea is to diffuse the powers of the state to a group of self-sustaining provinces,” she said.
Following Javier’s appointment, Duterte now has six appointees to the High Court, including Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin.
Duterte has yet to name his last appointee who will take the spot vacated by Bersamin.
Duterte’s other appointees at the high tribunal are Associate Justices Andres Reyes Jr, Alexander Gesmundo, Jose Reyes Jr., and Ramon Paul Hernando.
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