Posts circulating on Facebook are claiming that the Supreme Court has junked the motion to reopen the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte because it has been declared unconstitutional. This is misleading.
On June 21, an FB page uploaded a 15-second reel featuring a graphic with a photo of Duterte and SC Spokesperson Camille Sue Mae Ting. The text on the graphic reads:
“wow salamat Supreme Court
‘Ibinasura na tuluyan ng Korte Suprema ng Pilipinas ang MOTION for RECONSIDERATION ng Senado na nagtatangkang buhayin muli ang mga Artikulo ng Empeachment (sic) laban kay Vp Inday Sarah (sic) Duterte dahil ito’y idineklara bilang UNCONSTITUTIONAL’
(Wow, thank you, Supreme Court
‘The Supreme Court of the Philippines has finally dismissed the Senate’s motion for reconsideration, which sought to revive the Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte because it had been declared unconstitutional’).”
On the same day, another user posted a similar copy of the graphic card on his personal account and in an FB group.
This is an old SC ruling pertaining to the 2025 impeachment complaint filed against the vice president.
It was the House of Representatives, not the Senate, that filed a motion for reconsideration seeking to reverse the court’s July 2025 ruling declaring the Articles of Impeachment against Duterte unconstitutional.
The SC junked the motion with finality last January 2026, ruling that the complaint is prohibited under the one-year bar rule in Article XI, Section 3 of the Constitution.
After the one-year period ended on Feb. 6, four new impeachment complaints were filed against Duterte, two of which were found sufficient in form and substance. The House subsequently impeached the vice president in May for the second time and transmitted the case to the Senate, who will vote on whether to convict Duterte.
The misleading video surfaced amid the pretrial conferences for the vice president’s case ahead of the actual trial on July 6. The pretrial process aims to streamline the trial by stipulating facts, marking evidence, setting trial dates and establishing the sequence for presenting evidence.
As of writing, the misleading reel published by FB page viral go tayo 0.2 (created Sept. 16, 2025) received 232,000 views; 6,600 reactions; 313 comments; and 796 shares. Copies shared by an FB user collectively gained 319 reactions; 38 comments; and 21 shares.
