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Arturo M. De Castro Vs. Judicial and Bar Council and President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo [RESOLUTION] [CONURRING AND DISSENTING OPINION, J. BRION]

ARTURO M. DE CASTRO, Petitioner, versus JUDICIAL AND BAR COUNCIL (JBC) and PRESIDENT GLORIA MACAPAGAL – ARROYO, Respondents [RESOLUTION] [CONURRING AND DISSENTING OPINION, J. BRION]

G.R. No. 191002 | 2010-04-20

CONCURRING AND DISSENTING OPINION

BRION, J.:


The Motions for Reconsideration

After sifting through the motions for reconsideration, I found that the arguments are largely the same arguments that we have passed upon, in one form or another, in the various petitions. Essentially, the issues boil down to justiciability; the conflict of constitutional provisions; the merits of the cited constitutional deliberations; and the status and effect of the Valenzuela[1] ruling. Even the motion for reconsideration of the Philippine Bar Association (G.R. No. 191420), whose petition I did not expressly touch upon in my Separate Opinion, basically dwells on...