Nothing much can be achieved in the impeachment of CJ Corona even if successful in the Senate except to sear in the public memory that a radical change in the leadership of the Supreme Court, touted before as the “untouchable” branch of the government is but a myth. But surely, it will not alter the present dynamics…
Honorable Senators sitting as impeachment court, ladies and gentlemen in the galleries, citizens of the republic and friends. Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, and President of Pixar, in 2005, five years before he died said: “Don’t be trapped with dogma, which is living with the results of others’ thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’…
Where the Supreme Court exercises its duty under the constitution, it is called “rule of law” but when Congress exercises the same function in accord with the same constitution, it is called “the mother of all blackmails”. It was a politically charge atmosphere in the House yesterday and Congressman Edcel Lagman cannot hide his displeasure over the decision…
The battlefield had been drawn, the war drums tapped; and swords unsheathed. An epic battle between a corrupt Supreme Court with a very low public rating and a very popular president is unfolding. You can predict the outcome. But victory will come only if the jurists whose reputations had been tarnished by injudicious partisan rulings, resign…
Today, Friday, an arrest warrant was served on the former President, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for electoral fraud, which is a non-bailable offense – while she was confined in a hospital in Taguig. Two policemen were assigned to watch her ward and to monitor her visitors. Photo-op and fingerprinting, the police said, would be made when she is ready. If her…
Malcolm Hall houses the UP College of Law in Diliman, Quezon City. It was named after Justice George Malcolm of the colonial Supreme Court. Though the college was established in 1911 at UP Padre Faura, it was only in 1948 where its facilities and its huge law library were transferred to its present site in UP Diliman Campus.…
Did GMA soil the integrity of her father, President Diosdado Macapagal and her physical ailments bear witness of her Dad’s wrath? During the 1965 presidential elections where Ferdinand Marcos ran against Diosdado Macapagal, General Ramon Gelvezon had adroitly sidestepped pressure from President’s ally Sergio Osmena to raid the Danao City bailiwick of Cebu’s warlord Ramon Durano. This is how…
The next Ombudsman is in the hands of the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) – We can only pray for a lesser screw-up. Or you can meet my incoming Ombudsman, on the left. I consider the Judicial Bar Council an elite mob, (others describe it as Old Boys Club, just like the SCORP) therefore it…
I watched with great discomfort the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing yesterday looking into the “money-trail” of General Jacinto Ligot and his wife, Erlinda and after about an hour of fruitless reel, I was rigid with stiff neck in a half-recumbent posture on a couch, but somehow I have managed to draw a conclusion that…
I watched the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee last night conducting a hearing on the grand thief by the army’s top brass and I was appalled by the galling conduct the generals played hide and seek of the millions of dollars and pesos they purloined from government contractors to the prejudice of the treasury. I kept…
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