The House of Representatives’ justice committee is not inclined to grant the request of impeachment complainant Lorenzo Gadon for Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno to be subpoenaed. I think the hearing has been proceeding well; we don’t need to make those potshots,” committee chair Rep. Reynaldo Umali told dzMM. Umali also said that Gadon “should not get ahead of the committee and Congress.”ADVERTISEMENT“That’s what makes things difficult. Gadon said on Monday that he wanted Sereno to appear at the House proceedings, which would resume in January, because there were certain issues that only she could personally answer. He said Sereno should thus be subpoenaed under the pain of being cited in contempt and ordered arrested.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 19, 2017 23:04 UTC