VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Claim that SC Justice Leonen impeached MISLEADING
Impeachment of members of the Supreme Court is initiated in the House of Representatives and the trial against Leonen has yet to begin.
Impeachment of members of the Supreme Court is initiated in the House of Representatives and the trial against Leonen has yet to begin.
Nagkakaisa ang pagboto, ibinasura ng Supreme Court (SC), na nakaupo bilang Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), ang “buong electoral protest” na isinampa ni dating senador Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. laban kay Vice President Leni Robredo para maagaw ang pangalawang pinakamataas na posisyon sa bansa.
Voting unanimously, the Supreme Court (SC), sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), dismissed “the entire electoral protest” that former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. filed against Vice President Leni Robredo to wrestle the country’s second highest post.
The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision granting the full retirement benefits of the late chief justice Renato Corona, despite his impeachment in 2012, is quite unsettling. It sends the wrong signal to public officials that it is all right to be dishonest for as long as they serve at least 15 years in government.
No I am not referring to the 8-6 vote in the Supreme Court last Friday on a matter that it should have from the beginning (“ab initio “ in lawyerspeak) dismissed outright.
Democracy in the Philippines did not die last Friday.
Fake news. We have that in abundance direct from the President himself.
Now we have Fake Charge
Duterte wants a compromise deal with the Marcoses. But if history were any indication, getting a deal is not going to be easy.
President Rodrigo Duterte has been vacillating on his stand about the Supreme Court’s role in the martial law declaration, from saying he won’t listen to the high court at all to recognizing that the justices have a say on its validity.
Of the four members of the Supreme Court who dissented from the majority decision upholding President Duterte’s declaration of Martial Law and suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in the whole of Mindanao, three ( Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio, and Associate Justice Alfredo Benjamin S. Caguioa)
supported him as far as Marawi City was concerned.