New Delhi, June 27 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Monday queried whether the Maharashtra Assembly Speaker can become a judge in his own cause and decide whether the motion to remove him is invalid. The top court also extended, till July 12, the time granted by Deputy Speaker to the 16 dissident MLAs to submit their written responses to the disqualification notice, and asked the Maharashtra government to ensure protection of all rebel Shiv Sena MLAs and their family members. Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, representing Shiv Sena’s Ajay Choudhari and Sunil Prabhu, submitted before a vacation bench of Justices Surya Kant and J.B. Pardiwala that rebel leader Eknath Shinde’s petition can be heard by the Bombay High Court, saying: “This isn’t a case to allow leap-frogging.” The bench asked Singhvi a specific query – could the Speaker become a judge in his own cause and decide that the motion to remove him is invalid? “Is the Speaker entitled to