Renato Corona was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on May 12, 2010 succeeding Reynato Puno who reached his age of retirement. Corona had his law degree at the Ateneo de Manila Law School, took his masters degree at Harvard Law School, and earned his Doctor of Civil Law degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Santo Tomas Graduate School.
Chief Justice Renato Corona was impeached last December 12, 2011 by the House of Representatives by the votes of 188 out of 284 congressmen. Corona’s appointment itself has a case. Corona was appointed by former president Arroyo days after the 2010 presidential elections, which is against the Constitution. It is written in the Constitution that a president cannot appoint any government official within the two months before his/her term ends. President Aquino never fully recognized Corona as the chief justice because of the irregularity of his appointment. The impeachment trial of Corona started last January 16, 2012 and is still ongoing up to the present. There are three main reasons why Chief Justice Corona was impeached: graft and corruption, violation of the Constitution, and betrayal of public trust. One of Corona’s cases was that he did not declare his statement of assets, liabilities, and net worth or SALN. This covered the three main reasons why he was impeached.
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