This is not true. The petition filed with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to cancel his Certificate of Candidacy (COC) has yet to reach the High Court as the poll body is only now preparing to hear the case.
The graphic showed only the 2018 ruling affirming the Sandiganbayan’s 2010 decision and 2011 joint resolution which, as reported by multiple news media, dismissed a case against former president Ferdinand Marcos, his wife Imelda, and his associates.
There are no records from the ICC that support this, and neither has any local nor international media reported on it.
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
