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.
More than 300 alleged members and supporters of the Maute, Abu Sayyaf and other militant groups have been ordered arrested for rebellion by the Department of National Defense, following the declaration of martial law in Mindanao.
By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL AS protests rage over the Marcos burial, a human rights lawyer and anti-Martial law advocate said any attempt to overturn the Supreme Court ruling would have slim chance of succeeding. In burying the remains of former president Ferdinand Marcos pending the finality of the SC decision, the Marcos family banked on a
By MIKHA FLORES CHAIRMAN Sixto Brillantes Jr. said the Commission on Elections will take no action on the case of Lucy Torres-Gomez, who was unseated by the Supreme Court as representative of the fourth district of Leyte, and said her case was different from that of Imus, Cavite mayor Emmanuel Maliksi. The high court on