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According to Central Books, this is Atty. Marquez’ biography.

JOSE MIDAS P. MARQUEZ has been a law clerk in the Supreme Court since 1991, while he was still a sophomore in law school. He has clerked for Associate Justice Abraham F. Sarmiento, Senior Associate Justice Ameurfina A. Melencio-Herrera, and Senior Associate Justice Josue N. Bellosillo.The Deputy Secretary of the Senate Electoral Tribunal, he is now detailed in the Office of the Chairman of the Tribunal, Senior Associate Justice Reynato S. Puno. The third child of a former city judge and a pharmacist, Midas is an A.B. Economics graduate from the Ateneo de Manila University.Class of 1987,and a holder of the degree of Juris Doctor, also from the same university, class of 1993. He became a member of the Philippine Bar in 1994. Midas and his wife Liezl Sarmiento, the youngest child of a prominent surgeon and an accomplished anaesthesiologist, have two children, Galo, 11, and Maia, 10. Midas has co-edited the Selected Opinions of Justice Ameurfina A. Melencio-Herrera: The Career Jurist and authored the League of Life, Love, and Law: A Biography of Senior Justice Josue N. Bellosillo which were both published by the Supreme Court Press in 1992 and 2003, respectively.

On a recent media video, when the press was asking him some questions, he accidentally bumped one of the microphones and showed some flamboyant gestures with effeminate scream. You be the judge.

This is not to mock his sexuality, because you know how much I adore people coming out of their closet, but as to share the world has been viewing for the past few hours.