I have blogged a number of times here in FV criticizing the decision of the Supreme Court on the MoA-AD case arguing in the main that the development of the law on separation of powers could be heading further in the wrong direction as a consequence of the decision. Among others, I raised the following concerns:
1) The SC has breached its duty to exercise judicial self-restraint on a highly delicate matter that involves the exercise of executive prerogative. I hold that the President’s prerogative as commander in chief to negotiate for peace in Mindanao or to continue waging war is beyond the purview of judicial review. By failing or refusing to exercise self-restraint, the SC has once again consciously enhanced its judicial powers (as in those cases affecting the oversight power of Congress) at the expense of the powers of the Executive, a co-equal department in our tripartite system of government.
My argument on this point runs like this: If we grant that the SC can prevent a peace negotiation via a temporary or permanent injunction to forestall a perceived dismemberment of the national territory, doesn’t it follow that, in case of executive dillydallying, the Court can also issue an order or enjoin to the commander in chief to recover a lost ground or territory, inflict punitive action or conduct an all-out war to win peace?
2) The main contention in the SC decision is wrapped in the majority’s interpretation of the MoA-AD to the effect that the government peace panel “virtually guaranteed” in the agreement that the present constitutional setup will be amended to validate provisions in the MoA-AD not heretofore in conformity with the Constitution.
My argument on this second point is: The MoA-AD still contemplates of a “comprehensive peace pact” yet to be forged and to be adopted in accordance with the processes (the amending process in particular) under the existing legal framework, i.e., the Constitution, essentially. The MoA-AD is thus akin to the joint Senate resolution proposing the adoption of federalism, obviously a political arrangement “brazenly” not in accord with the present unitary system.
3) The case was mooted when the President unilaterally has gotten rid of the MoA-AD.
My argument on this point is: What would have happened had the SC ruled that the MoA-AD is constitutional? Won’t such a decision be anything but academic since the MoA-AD is already scrapped and the President as commander in chief might have in fact already decided to finish the fight until the rebellious forces are totally suppressed?
The foregoing concerns notwithstanding, should I still support the Complaint-in-Intervention filed by our colleague mlq3 et al in the pending impeachment proceeding against President Arroyo?
I certainly will if there is a “probable cause” as to the allegations contained in the Complaint that the President “chose to renegotiate with the MILF with the main objective of remedying her plummeting trust, approval, and popularity ratings” or only for “purely partisan, political, objectives such an agreement could help achieve, namely, amending the Constitution in furtherance of her political needs and those of her allies” or otherwise “undertaken with purely tactical political goals in mind.”
Popularity: 1% [?]
Ginoong JCC, hindi ko po hinihikayat ang mga tao para umalsa, bayani ko po si Jose Rizal “Ang Kabataan ang Pag-asa ng Bayan”, kung ang mga propesor at mga mga intellectual na tulad ninyo ay talagang concern sa bansang Pilipinas, doon po tayo mag-umpisa sa mga paaralan, ituro ang tama para mabura na ang corruption na talamak sa gobyernong Pilipino. Edukasyon, edukasyon, yaan po ang pinaniniwalaan ko na makakagaling sa CANCER ng Pilipinas
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lcm,
actually pareho tayo ng layunin. i had always been consistent in my post that we educate our children with the concepts of honesty, integrity and that public office is a public trust rather glue ourselves in the process of changing our leaders every six years just for the sake of the process when everyone of them “parepareho” namang magnanakaw, pero malakas ang boses na sabihin sa mamamayan na sila and katuparan ng pangarap ng ating mamamayan.
with education, the people will discern the demagogues from the statesmen/women.
jon_limjap,
only if you accept that the collective remittances of OFW’s and Pinoy immigrants bouy up the economy and keeps it from going under you can appreciate my post above. if you do not, we do not have to quarrel about it.
but if you do, whatever savings and business you have in an economy that has gone under, will water down any financial and business securiy your family enjoy today.
if you belong to the upper class, i salute you for speaking for the people who have to struggle for daily survival because of the corruption in our government. but be rest assured, that our circumstance here do not void us out of our birthright to speak our mind as a Filipino.
Bloggers Historic Act, AYE.
“i had always been consistent in my post that we educate our children with the concepts of honesty, integrity and that public office..”
too bad jcc the lawyer extraordinaire extortionist does NOT practice what he preaches. Another Bencard part 2.
consistent integrity honesty daw, eklat. magsama na kayo ni GMA.
jcc,
Which brings me back to my previous point.
If it’s your birthright to speak your mind as a Filipino, then all the more that it’s OUR birthright to file this impeachment case, or this intervention, or delve in legalese and do “lawyering” to be able to correct a situation we do believe believe have to be corrected.
For what is an impeachment complaint, or an intervention thereof, but an official channel to “speak our mind”?
jon_limjap,
you can file all the impeachment complaints you want for all I care, that is your right. where did i ever say that you should not file the impeachment against GMA?
what i am voicing out is my concern that any impeachment complaint today will only further the divide the people and destabilized an already shaky regime, a destabilization that can create a power vacuum that can justify a “military coup”, “npa coup”, “MILF coup” “CBCP coup”, “GMA-Mike Arroyo Coup, that can even further enslave our people.
You should be the one that should be scared of this possible scenarios unless you think you can easily bail out from RP because you happened to have the dough.
it seems that you want me to be tolerant of those people who want to file an impeachement against GMA and actually I am, but you are intolerant of those people who think otherwise because impeachment is a plain “scarecrow” and will not dislodge the official in power. Have you not learned enough from DAvide impeachment, Erap impeachment and GMA Impeachement Part 1?
Let’s accept the fact that the process has been rejected. It is a learning process to all those bravehearts who consistently showed their courage to impeach GMA.
The second lesson we have learned is that impeachment must be filed when there’s a big chance of success. The focus should have been more on the result and the process of getting support from the House. The next time we do it, let’s recruit 1/3 members of the house prior to filing with their signatures. There will be no reason for SC to reject it. It will be put to trial. The Senate will become the jury and 2/3 are required to prosecute. Then there’s the issue of pardon and time involve. And,
The publicity of her impeachment may have consequence on the business/private sectors and foreign investors. They may look at our economy as very unstable and the people are too unhappy.
The private businesses who are corrupt with bribery and illegal donations to elect someone in office ( in the case of Gloria ) may mobilize their connections and influence the other political leaders that may have actually supported the impeachment. It’s really a fuck up country. sorry :)
The positive side of the impeachment, it’s the activity itself. It will strengthen the opposition and hopefully will learn new tricks in the future. The activity and the process will signal private entities that they cannot just keep supporting these people in office. They should learn to invest with our people who are actually contributors for making them rich. 50% of small elite businesses are supporters to the majority policital leaders. These type of corruption affects lawmaking , policymaking and they will operate within the weakness of the law. poor pinoy talaga :)
DAvide impeachment, Erap impeachment and GMA Impeachement Part 1?
Davide impeachment:
masyadong excited yung mga young guns ni Danding,di sila nakakuha ng suporta from the old dogs.
Erap impeachment:
Nakakuha nga ng one third sa congress,nabitin naman sa senado tapos nagresulta sa people power,madami nagsasabi tulad ni DJB na ito ay fascism, lahat na ata ng klase ng fascism ; fascism ng clegy,judiciary at ng lahat.
GMA,
again hindi muna kinuha ang one third,sabi nila nag promise daw ang iba na susuporta sila pero nabayaran daw kaya bumaligtad sa pagbaligtad.
So there it is;
what could we learn about those case studies?????
mlq3,
“…..the day we refuse to debate and the day we become impatient with mere words is the day we’re utterly like cruella’s people, who have no respect for words or the written word.”
To make myself clear, I’m not refusing to debate. My point, as I noted in a previous comment elsewherE here at FV, also related to MoA-AD, worse than the blind are thos who refuse to see.
I subscribe to your point of view passionately, nguni’t yung mga nakikipagtalo sa atin ay ganap na nagbubulagbulkagan, manapa’y itinuturing tayong mga bobo. Yan ang tinutukoy kong aksaya sa oras. Nguni’t ang diskurso ay dapat isulong.
jcc,
The lessons learned in these impeachment cases are lessons learned but not applied.
The Davide and GMA impeachments, for example teach us that any impeachment complaint should be substantiative and be carefully prepared to withstand “lawyering” and technicalities.
The Erap impeachment tells us nothing about impeachment processes: we didn’t let it finish. The aftermath tells us to trust no one, especially politicians and their lawyers.
None of the three cases tell us that impeachments are useless.
jcc, masyado kang nananakot sa after Gloria scenario. what is it they say, putting the horse before the wagon?
you cannot justify a wrongdoing by imploring the possibility of chaos in the future if the wrongdoer is brought to task.
what kind of twisted mind do you have?
whats so heroic about it? heroic maybe for the anti-GMA…as far as I know, this will only worsen the situation of the Philippines…and who will be the victims? ang mamayang pilipino…lalo hihirap ang buhay…
so whats so heroic about it? suing the corrupt…at the same time making friends with the other corrupt!!!
again…whats so heroic about it!!!!!
Juwan_D:
It’s not heroism. It’s doing what is right, and standing up for justice. It’s a basic demand of citizenship.
Pardon code switching:
Yung masakit na part siguro kung magiging kabayanihan na ang lumaban para sa hustisya at pumanig para sa malinis na gobyerno at pamamahala. Kung kabayanihan iyon, siguro kailangan nating ire-evaluate yung pagiging mamamayan natin. Mahirap na nga ang buhay ng kapwa nating Pilipino, siguro naman dapat may gawin na tayo. Kesa naman nakatunganga na lang habang binabastos tayo at ninanakawan ng dignidad ng mga namumuno ngayon.
Walang bayaning pumirma sa intervention para mapasagot si Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo sa BJE MOA-AD kasama na rin sa mga paglabag niya sa saligang batas at sa karaniwang sensibilidad ng pagiging Pilipinong may dignidad at respeto sa sarili. Hindi bayani ang mga pumirma nung dokumentong iyon, kundi mga karaniwang Pilipino na tumayo para sa tama.
What’s so heroic about it? Good question: nothing. It was an act of restoring dignity and self-respect in being a Filipino who has had freaking enough of all of it. Conviction. Faith. Citizenship. It’s not heroism. It’s doing the right thing. If that’s heroism for you, then it’s a trying time for heroes.
Doing the right thing?????
What is the right thing?
if you are talking about corrupt officials…all of them are corrupt! taking GMA out of the picture will not in anyway change anything…it will not lift the lives of the poor filipino people..it will not stop corruption…etc etc etc…but it surely will cause another chaos…another suffering to the filipino people…the usual victims…
Who initiated the impeachment anyway…JDV III, what kind of person is he? I WILL BET MY LIFE..HE IS JUST AS CORRUPT AS ANYONE IN THE GOVERNMENT…
So, doing the right thing? what right thing? GMA impeachment is the right thing?
If you want to do the right thing…you will not single out GMA in the impeachment…impeach all our politicians, because they are all corrupt, menace, murderers of the filipino people, they are the biggest reason why our country never moved on and why the filipino lives never improved…its not just GMA…its ALL OF THEM!
You wanna do the right thing? dont take the battle on one person alone….take it to all of them!
So please…heroic? nah…doing the right thing? well, thats what everybody says..specialy the corrupt politicians…doing the right thing my ass.
juwan_d
i share your frustration. !! !
Ikaw juwan_d at ikaw jcc, ano na ba nagawa nyo? WALA diba?
Tulad ni jcc, nasa ibang bansa ka na po sir. Nung nilayasan mo ang Pilipinas, at ipinagpalit mo na ang pagkaPilipino mo, isa ka nang DAYUHAN. Isinuko mo na ang pagiging Pilipino mo. I’m sure may I pledge allegiance ka to the flag of the USA diba? Kaya puhleeze lang, wag ka na mafrustrate. Mafrustrate ka nalang dyan sa PINILI mong BAYAN.
juwan_d, bago ka mafrustrate, siguraduhan mo muna na may nagawa ka na. Puro ka habla.
i will never forget what one lady said in a forum in 06, i think, as someone agonized over the “imperial manila” question.
the lady was from the province and basically said, “shut up and protest. we need you to protest in manila. here where we are, the mayors and the governors and their goons all keep an eye on everyone and if anyone dares raise a fist in the plaza, they or their loved ones will be liquidated by the next day, and there’s no media, no lawyers, nothing to ever do a damned thing about them or for them. you over here can gather as you please, and even if you get hurt theres many more of you and if necessary you can hide, so go ahead and do what we can never do.”
you cannot impeach everybody not least because only the president and vice-president among our elected officials can be impeached. everyone else has to be removed by means of an ethics committee composed of their peers or by recall elections mounted by constituents who, if they can’t even rally, will likely have an even tougher time mounting a recall election.
and as among ed shows, it’s the critics of the palace who most likely get hit with a recall; so removing the president may not lead to a big change, but it’s a start, and most of all, necessary in and of itself. and it could quite conceivably, on the other hand, start rolling back the tide.
yanna,
you were doing the same acts you were protesting. yakitiyakitak ka rin.
have you heard word “dual citizenship?”
Juwan_D:
In an ideal anarchy, your solution would work. But pardon my forethought: you probably don’t like the idea of anarchy. For one, you’re talking about impeachments not in the sense of it being a means towards justice, but a means and ends of replacing GMA. If you impeach everybody, you’ll end up with chaos anyway.
But that’s a good question: what have you done? More importantly, what are you going to do? Are you going to draft a document that will impeach every single Government official out there? More importantly, are you even going to do it, Sir?
If you believe that’s the right thing, Sir, do it. Do something about the current situation in the Philippines and the Filipino people.
Pardon the retort, but if you won’t do it for us, do it for your ass. Do it for your own sense of self-respect.
No man is an island. Anything we do for our country requires collective support and teamwork from each of us.
Any Pinoy in america have always look after their families back home. At least , the families left behind are not a burden to this economy. IMHO
Sa palagay nyo yun MOA-AD ay madideklarang unconstitutional kung mayroong dalawa o tatlong morong justices ng SC?
At kung mayroong isang daang diputado sa camara na Moro o maka-Moro, sino kaya ang unang maiimpeach si Arroyo o ang mga walanghiyang hukom?
jcc,
Well even if you are a “dual citizen”, the question is, where are you RIGHT NOW? The answer would be where you CHOSE to STAY. So bale wala sa kin yang dual citizenship mo.
And I can yakitayakyak all I want because unlike you, I LIVE HERE and I am doing something.
marocharim,
Did I touch your ego? Are you mad because I did not agree with what you said? and I thought you are one bright and broadminded filipino…did a heroic act or did the right thing…who has self-respect..unlike me…blah blah blah ek-ek
Yes I am going to do something…and I am going to do it not just for my ass, but for all filipino asses and for my country’s ass..and you know what, Im not going to single out one politician alone, I am going to take the fight to all of them…and im not even talking about anarchy…
What you are doing will not do any good to the filipino people…did you really fantasize of a better philippines and better living filipinos the moment GMA is thrown out of office? did you really believe that???? Look at the people who are impatiently waiting to replace her…look at them!!! are they the answers of a better philippines??? are they the knight in shining armour type???? These people have been robbing the filipinos..just like GMA, and there is more of them than GMA…so pardon me if I dont agree with you…mister journalist. If what you are doing will not result to a better philippines and a better living filipinos…please dont ever say you are doing the right thing.
Poeple like you, journalist..right? you think, just because you said so, we the normal people, the taxpayers should just swallow what you say and believe you right away…well I am not going to do that anymore, because you journalists also have proven that you are no different than the politicians…and that you have done nothing so far but contribute to the problems of these beloved country of mine. You can be bought…you take sides…and You dont really care, all you care is your own interest…not the interest of the people.
and yeah…you talk a lot!
yanna,
so tell us kung ano yung something na nagagawa or nagawa mo jan…
bukod sa pagdakdak mo dito ha…hehehe
Noting that this comes from someone who’s already committed a lot of words in this thread, I am utterly amused. Entertained even. :D
Thank you!
actually…I wasnt talking about ¨talking a lot¨ in this thread…tsk tsk tsk
sana nagets mo muna…bago ka nagcomment..
at salamat naman at na ¨amused at entertained¨ ka…bwehehehe
jcc,
what foolishness are you talking about here? You profess to be a lawyer of note but your arguments here betray your juvenile mind.
what’s this crap
“what i am voicing out is my concern that any impeachment complaint today will only further the divide the people and destabilized an already shaky regime, a destabilization that can create a power vacuum that can justify a “military coup”, “npa coup”, “MILF coup” “CBCP coup”, “GMA-Mike Arroyo Coup, that can even further enslave our people.”
What to destabilize man when EVERYTHING ALREADY IS UNSTABLE? How can you destabilize something already in disequilibrium since the start?
and You Juwan_D, what are you talking about here? What’s wrong with aspiring for a better life for the Filipino? Are you saying that we stay the same, as always, ad infinitum? If you want that, then, don’t tell us what to do or what to think.
If we want a revolution, we will do it, even without you. For revolutions allow societies’ to grow and develop.
Those who want to feed on the old ideas and old ways of doing things, do so. Continue.
Aww… let’s not take it too harsh. Why so serious?
Juwan_D: You’re only hurting yourself, you know… I mean, why are you so mad at me when you can channel that very same anger to The Government you and I both profess to loathe so much?
You honestly think you can hurt me with what you said? Oh sure, you did, for like… 3 minutes. This country has been hurt by what a Government said for 7 years.
For the record: I’m not a journalist, and nobody paid me, and NOBODY can pay me to take a side or adhere to a principle. I was NOT raised that way. You can’t buy me.
And yes, I take sides and I’m damn proud of taking sides.
And yes, this is my interest: this is our country we’re talking about. The answer is simple, but unfortunately, rather complicated for a lot of people: justice.
To paraphrase Malcolm X: If you can’t live and die for that side called freedom, justice, fairness, accountability, responsibility… then you might as well take those words out of your vocabulary, and those perspectives out of your life.
There is hope, Sir. That hope, Sir, is why we resist.
Patricio Mangubat,
Did I ever mention ¨revolution¨? Did I say its wrong to aspire for a better life for the filipino people? Did I say we should stay the same? And did I tell you what to do or what to say?
If you are so articulate how come you didnt understand what I said. Plain and simple english…to impeach GMA will not do any good to the filipino people..we threw out FM, we impeached ERAP…what happened after that? a better life for all of us? a better philippines?
And now we will impeach GMA…what do you think will happen next? if you are so damn intelligent, you should know the answer…
tanong:
Who will replace GMA once impeached?
Choices:
Villar, Jinggoy, Escudero, JDV, Legarda, Binay, Bayani Fernando, Erap, De castro, etc etc etc…
Conclusion:
All those in line are the same rotten and corrupt politicians..recycled…they all have PHD in robbing the people…PHD in making false statements…
We have had the same breeds of politicians since time in memorial…the corrupt grand father, replace by the corrupt son..and the corrupt son replaced by his corrupt son..and so on and so forth..
So what are you talking about…mr articulate?
Marocharim,
Why so serious??
For me Mr macharim, this is a serious matter…and I am dead serious everytime I talk about it.
Tell me…what do you think will happen next after GMA is thrown out of office.
And who do you think will replace our corrupt president?
If its you…ill tell you right now, im going to vote for you. But we both know that is far from reality, the corrupt politicians will never allow that. Will you even try to run for the highest office this 2010?
Juwan_D:
No, I can’t, I’m just 23 years old.
In the end, the only reason why this cause is worth fighting for is because it’s the right thing to do. Because it’s just, it’s fair, and it’s a hope that we can set ourselves free.
Juwan_D,
How do you suppose we help change things then?
Leave them be? Ganon na lang ba yun?
Marocharim,
We both have good intentions for the filipino people…although we do not agree to each other’s way of realizing those intentions, still hope and pray that things will get better for our people in the near future.
When you are already qualified to run for the highest office…and if you will…I will vote for you.
Jon Limjap,
The sad thing is…this is something the filipino people will have to live with for the next long years…you know what im talking about…corrupt politicians running our country…police officers who thinks they are above the law and considers civilians as the lowest mammals…poor social security service to the working filipinos…small earners pay taxes up to the last centavo but the huge earners gets away with their taxes…poor filipino getting poorer…etc etc.
Ill tell you, if only I have the power, Ill change things for the better right away…but I dont…and you dont…
we cant even unite ourselves in this thread..we cant even agree to one thing in this thread..and there are 10 or 20 of us in this thread? and even if we argue, debate throw punches to each other everyday for the next 6 months…we still wont be able to come up with one common idea. that is because we dont want to..we refuse to…because we always think we are much better than the other..and we take it offensively if the other person has a better idea compared to ours. This is why we have so many political parties…How much more if there were millions of us…
Unity is something we filipinos dont have…
Loyalty to a person..definitely we do have. This is how a politician gets away with his crimes…give 100 peso to one filipino and that filipino will become your lifetime supporter, it wouldnt matter if you stole 1000 from another…that filipino will definitely not believe that you are a thief.
For some people FM was a very bad president but for some he was god, Erap was a bad president to others but for some he is the knight in shining armor…GMA is damn corrupt for others but for some she is better from others….
So going back to your question…I dont really know how to move on…because I dont really know how to change the mindset of the filipino people…aftrerall, if we (the filipino people) wont change…nothing will change. We can impeach every god damned politician everytime we want to…but it will not change anything…we will still go back to the same old shit we were into.
I can only change my own mindset..I can only change my own views..I can only change my own perception…I can only change myself..for the better, and hope that everyone will change for the better too.
hey Juwan D…welcome to the intellectual mastubation reality!
Joma,
i only knew of ¨intellectual intercourse¨..thanks, always glad to learn new things :)
Joker (Arroyo) was quite serious in his letter to Philippine Daily Inquirer posted Nov. 7, 2008 re the SC decision on the MoA-AD case:
Thus, John Nery extends the “leave lawyering to the lawyers” debate in the Nov. 18, 2008 piece for his PDI Newsstand column:
But aren’t courts political institutions too?
Hi Juwan,
I trust that you will discover the difference.
Technically a court decision is a number game. The majority rules and the minority sulks. But that does not mean that the majority holds the beacon of truth, wisdom, probity and judiciousness for what is being address sometimes in majority ruling is political convenience and party affiliation and not the ideals of justice and everything that it represents.
Justices have their own biases and party affiliatons, or as T. Jefferson said:
“To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is “boni judicis est ainpliare jurisdictionem,” and their power the more dangerous as they are in once for life . . . The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots.
what foolishness are you talking about here? You profess to be a lawyer of note but your arguments here betray your juvenile mind.
what’s this crap . PATRICIO,
unfortunately patricio, you were the one with infantile mind. what happened to the botched erap impeachment? did not the wheel-heeled makati groups went to the streets of metro manila and brought the country to a standstill and ousted erap from power which others claimed nothing but a “judicial putchism or anarchy?
if that was not bad enough for you, others think otherwise. and what makes you think that another botched impeachment would not spiral into something more nasty?
patricio,
do you still have some recollection of the two groups of urban poor (pro-erap and pro-gloria) that massed on the streets of Manila and clashed on the streets and some poor people died on the streets because the anti-GMA would like to dislodge GMA from Malacanang? Have you quantified the costs of those loss of human lives as against the cost of just waiting for the 2010 to replace GMA?
Apparently we are not too concern of the loss of human lives because we are simply happy delivering our sermons from the comfort of our homes and displaying our patriotic fervor and soundbites in this blog while sipping our coffe atop our swivel chair of our airconditioned office suite. And we can always assume our self-righteous arrogance against those people who tried to quantify the political as well as human cost of your infantile mind that entertains that you can disloged GMA through impeachment. :)
wake up patricio ! ! ! Count your congressmen and senators to determine if you have the numbers required to unseat GMA. :)
patricio,
add to this quandary of replacing GMA with another corrupt patrons of yours which there are plenty who are already salivating for power….
maghunos dili ka patricio… ! ! !
Thanks for the clarification Abe, but you still haven’t given a specific answer — sort of aye or naye.
Alright, let me be more specific: Do you believe there is a probable cause as to allegations contained in the Complaint that the President …?
Aye or naye?
Intellectual masturbation.
Is there such a word as onanities.
I just learned about the word “onanist” only a few days ago in this blog from Q3.
Anna,
A contrary opinion on the matter such as mine is immaterial (for the purpose of initiating impeachment proceeding) considering that the majority in Cotabato has held the MoA-AD as violative of the Constitution. The Court’s decision however stopped short of directly holding President Arroyo liable for the violation.
Now, the Complaint of mlq3 et al states that the President not only had authorized the negotiation of the constitutionally infirm MoA-AD but she subsequently approved the agreement, implying in effect that the constitutional infraction is imputable to the President or the breach of her constitutional obligation readily discernible by simply commonsensically tying up the events that led to it. I think that’s sufficient probable cause.
Because of the foregoing, establishing the presidential motivation (e.g., to amend the Constitution in furtherance of her political needs) would perhaps be just icing on the cake.
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