Come to think of it. The Supreme Court nowadays is looking more and more like the House partisans that displayed nary a compunction to nip right in the bud not one but three impeachment attempts against Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Remember that Arroyo’s congressional allies let the former president off the hook despite for example her public [...]
The Carpio Formula, the Philippine-Style Party-List System and Social Justice
April 25, 2009 By 46 Comments
Finally after ten years of mixed membership, the House of Representatives of the Republic of the Philippines shall have 20% of its members coming from the party-list (proportional representation) voting system. This 20-percent constitutional mandate is fulfilled by the new Supreme Court ruling on April 21, 2009. For the first time in ten years, the [...]
Whom SC wish to destroy
April 24, 2009 By 4 Comments
The latest SC decision seems to follow occurring climate change – rain in summer. As it is now, Congress advanced the sentiment that there are neither 32 offices nor available gargantuan budget to support the recruitment of the additional party-list representatives. We are not about inclined to re-echo what lady Sen. Miriam Santiago has said [...]
Unethical to Call Smith “Convicted Rapist”
March 6, 2009 By 74 Comments
The Supreme Court of the Philippines (SCoRP) recently produced three written Decisions on the custody case of Lance Corporal Daniel Smith: a 9-4 Majority Decision by Justice Rodolfo Azcuna; and two Dissenting Opinions by Chief Justice Reynato Puno and Associate Justice Antonio Carpio. In the Majority Decision, Lance Corporal Daniel Smith is invariably referred to [...]
What Moral Force Movement?
February 23, 2009 By 18 Comments
Chief Justice Puno is reportedly convening his advisory council in the coming days – composed as he claims of representatives from – business, Church, media, government, youth and other concerned sectors of society. The council apparently will serve as the organizational framework for so-called moral force movement in the fight against corruption. And the resulting [...]
Moral Force – The New Campaign Platform
January 19, 2009 By 15 Comments
Practitioners of futuristic scenarios and high impact analyses may be able to see the thin thread woven along what seemed to have been a simple personal view of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Puno when made to react to a rumored threat that an impeachment against him is in the offing. Two developments [...]
Chief Justice Reynato Puno, A Knight In Tattered Armor!
January 15, 2009 By 19 Comments
My favorite Chief Justice is under fire. Expect a group of lawyers, particularly those with pending cases with the division of the “Chief”, his friends and the academic communities who know CJ Puno to picture him as the paragon of “honesty and incorruptibility”. He will be paraded as a “constitutionalist” exemplar and a civil right [...]
Trying to Oust a Chief Justice
January 13, 2009 By 6 Comments
If the rumors I have been hearing are true, there is a scramble to oust the current Chief Justice via the unpromulgated Limkaichong case. The only way to oust a Justice of the Supreme Court, even a Chief Justice, is by impeachment, and I honestly don’t see any ground in this case. Presuming then that [...]
RP – Case of Catch 22
December 28, 2008 By 17 Comments
Let us suppose that Malacanang, Inc. has set for its goal-setting priority the whole agenda of going about charter change at the earliest time possible and – at whatever costs to pay. And then it succeeds despite massive opposition to it by people across the social stratification. Ergo, we either have a GMA playing role [...]
If 6 Were 9
November 12, 2008 By 2 Comments
I didn’t know common-sense remarks could be characterized as words that “bordered on seditious utterances.” But that’s exactly how the justice secretary described a statement from Jaro Archbishop Angel Lagdameo and four other prelates. The statement—“The time to prepare a new government is now. The time to start radical reforms is now. The time for [...]
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