MANILA, Philippines — Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio has opposed the application of Court Administrator Midas Marquez for the position of Supreme Court associate justice. He hired her son as a contractual legal clerk at the Office of the Court Administrator. He landed on headlines when he served as one of the resource speakers during the impeachment proceeding against former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno at the House of Representatives. Marquez—who earlier downplayed the complaint as an “old recycled issue”—did not pass through the Office of the Court Administrator. “I’d like to confirm based on my personal knowledge that the court administrator does not have anything to do with the World Bank Funds.”

Source: Philippine Star September 26, 2018 06:45 UTC