By ELLEN TORDESILLAS
CHIEF Justice Renato Corona has nixed calls for him to just resign and spare the country from an emotional and divisive exercise.
He has, in fact, decided to fight back warning of a creeping dictatorship by President Aquino.
CHIEF Justice Renato C. Corona’s Dec. 14 speech to Supreme Court employees at the Supreme Court compound where he branded President Aquino as a dictator and called himself the defender of justice.
PRESIDENT Aquino’s speech at the Dec. 13 Administration Coalition Caucus held at the EDSA Shangri-la Hotel, Mandaluyong City.
THE verified complaint containing the eight articles of impeachment that the House of Representatives transmitted to the Senate after impeaching Chief Justice Renato C. Corona on Dec. 12. A total of 188 out of the 285-member House signed the complaint charging Corona with culplable violation of the Constitution, betrayal of public trust and graft and corruption.
CHIEF Justice Renato C. Corona’s Dec. 12 speech before Supreme Court Justices and court officials and employees during the flag raising ceremonies at the Supreme Court grounds, in response to the surreptitious “Oust the CJ Plot.”
THE Dec. 5 speech of President Aquino at the 1st National Criminal Justice Summit where he slammed Chief Justice Renato Corona
