{"id":1156897,"date":"2019-08-24T05:15:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T21:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/?p=1156897"},"modified":"2019-08-23T22:39:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T14:39:56","slug":"news-briefs-august-24-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1156897\/news-briefs-august-24-2019","title":{"rendered":"黑料社 Briefs: August 24, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JBC extends deadline for CJ post application<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) has extended to Sept. 2 the deadline of the application period for the position of chief justice. Edgar Aricheta, JBC ex-officio secretary, said the extension was made \u201cconsidering that three of the five most senior justices of the Supreme Court declined to be considered for nomination for the said post.\u201d Under JBC rules, the five most senior justices are automatically considered nominated whenever a vacancy in the position of chief justices arises. The original application period ended on Tuesday with only Justices Diosdado Peralta and Estela Perlas-Bernabe, the second and third most senior magistrates, accepting their automatic nomination. Justice Andres Reyes Jr. also applied for the post. Chief Justice Lucas Bersamin is set to retire on Oct. 18 at the age of 70. The most senior justice, Antonio Carpio, who is retiring on Oct. 26, declined to be nominated. Francis Jardeleza will retire on Sept. 26. The fourth and sixth most senior, Justices Marvic Leonen and Alfredo Benjamin Caguioa, declined to be nominated. <em><strong>\u2014Jerome Aning<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Duterte leaves fate of Sogie bill to Congress<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even if he is personally in favor of it, President Duterte will respect the wisdom of Congress if it will pass or junk the sexual orientation and gender identity and expression (Sogie) equality bill. \u201cWith respect to any bill, the discretion, the wisdom, will always lie on the lawmakers,\u201d presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in an interview. He added: \u201cStill, even if the President supports it, if the Congress disagrees. That\u2019s how the so-called balance of power and checks and balances operate.\u201d Senate President Vicente Sotto III has maintained that the bill has \u201cno chance\u201d to be passed in the Senate. <em><strong>\u2014Julie M. Aurelio<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>LTO: COA never disallowed phone, tablets purchases<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Land Transportation Office (LTO) on Friday clarified that the Commission on Audit (COA) never disallowed the procurement of P3.9 million worth of phones and tablets, as well as prepaid load, which state auditors flagged as \u201cexpensive, excessive.\u201d The LTO said the procurement of 41 cell phones and 22 tablets was initiated in 2015 and involved a three-year procurement period. \u201cThese were necessary in the performance of the LTO-National Capital Region (NCR)\u2019s functions in order to keep abreast in today\u2019s technology,\u201d said NCR director Clarence Guinto. \u201cWe needed dependable, fast and efficient communications devices to instantaneously keep up with our stakeholders, especially in the NCR where the bulk of LTO clients are.\u201d <em><strong>\u2014Krixia Subingsubing<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JBC extends deadline for CJ post application The Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) has extended to Sept. 2 the deadline of the application period for the position of chief justice. Edgar Aricheta, JBC ex-officio secretary, said the extension was made \u201cconsidering that three of the five most senior justices of the Supreme Court declined to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1231,"featured_media":950280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,34,37,45],"tags":[2653,206083,4381,232097],"byline":[],"source":[206078],"column":[],"editor":[],"videographer":[],"position":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>黑料社 Briefs: August 24, 2019 | Inquirer 黑料社<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) has extended to Sept. 2 the deadline of the application period for the position of chief justice.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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