Draw whatever conclusion you want, but the dismissal of the forfeiture proceedings against businessman tycoon Lucio Tan by the Sandiganbayan happened on President Benigno Simeon Aquino’s watch, thus damaging his ‘impact’ slogan of “Matuwid Na Daan.” Tan had survived Corazon Aquino’s (1986-1992) efforts to restore what had been stolen from the people by the Marcoses and his cronies where it…
Recurring political images in the Philipines: ROLSON RODRIGUEZ, a barangay chairman of Sto. Domingo, Binalbagan, Negros Occidental was found guilty of dishonesty and oppression. He was dismissed from the service and stripped with all his retirement benefits and civil service eligibilities. DELSA M. FLORES, court interpreter of a regional trial court of Davao received from the municipality of Panabo the…
After almost 3 hours of ‘privileged speech’ CJ Corona wishes to be excused. He does not need the permission of the presiding officer, Juan Ponce Enrile to do that, after all, he is the chief justice! Delivering his monologue, with curt admonitions from the Presiding Officer, Corona was transported into his own world of privileged,…
Dateline: Maui, Hawaii, 3:00 P.M. May 3, 2012 I filed this report 3 hours after touchdown at Kahului Airport, Maui — Where do the dollars of CJ Renato Corona could have come from? The issue of whether he has dollar accounts, had already been settled after the PSBank President testified before the IC that the chief magistrate…
The Corona Dilemma I am writing a book about the impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona because this historical political exercise effectively divides the nation between those who believe in the myth that there is nothing wrong with the judiciary and those who believe that there is something wrong with it and CJ Corona represents everything…
Watching Senator Gringo Honasan interpellating Secretary of Justice Lila De Lima during the impeachment trial of CJ Renato Corona yesterday about affording even a lowly citizen his constitutional rights to life, liberty and property as the very basis of the existence of any government gave me goose pimples. Rolando Olalia must be twisting in his grave! God Save The Queen…
Defense lawyer Serafin Cuevas, my venerable professor in civil procedure described the position of Senator Frank Drilon that the impeachment body was beyond the reach of the Supreme Court as “bankrupt” and without jurisprudential support. He gloated over the Francisco v. House of Representatives as an authority to the proposition that the Court has an oversight function…
Megaworld vs. Judge Cobarde, et. al. G.R. No. 156200. March 31, 2004. FACTS: In July 1995, Mar y Cielo Leisure Resort, Inc, owned by the Zamora family (MYC-Zamora for short) hired Matthew Jo and Ida Henares (to be referred hereinafter as Jo and Henares) to broker a joint venture between MYC-Zamora and Megaworld to develop MYC-Zamora’s beach-front properties in Lapu-Lapu, Cebu City consisting…
On April 15, 1970, Congressman Gerald Ford (R-Mich) rose to demand an investigation of Associate Justice William O. Douglas on four specific charges: 1. Douglas had sold an article to Fact magazine and had received payment for it when the publisher, Ralph Ginzburg, was involved in litigation in federal courts which ultimately reached the Supreme Court. …
A week before the impeachment trial of CJ Renato Corona, I emailed Congressman Neil Tupas, Jr., through his House website. My email could have been routed to his “spam” folder because I have not received any response; or simply, the team thought that they have every base already covered hence an outside help is not needed. But…
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