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"The pronouncements of the Court in both GR No. 179895 and GR No. 180543, and the finality of the decision rendered by the RTC on October 24, 2007... recognizing Justice Ong as a natural born citizen of the Philippines and directing the correction of the existing records of his birth and citizenship have already definitively settled the subject of the query posed by SP Villa-Ignacio," said the high court in its six-page resolution.

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Ong was originally appointed by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, but his appointment was rejected by the SC en banc due to questions on his citizenship.

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Barely a week later, Kilosbayan Foundation and Bantay Katarungan Foundation filed a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court alleging that Ong's appointment was “patently unconstitutional, arbitrary, whimsical and issued with grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction" because Ong is a Chinese citizen as indicated in his birth certificate.

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In late 2007, a Pasig Regional Trial Court had granted Ong's petition to be recognized as a natural-born citizen. In August, Arroyo appointed Ruben Reyes instead of Ong in the Supreme Court, after the latter withdrew his appointment due to the controversy. — DVM, GMA News

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