Government

“SC NEEDS AN ENTIRELY NEW CORPUS, NOT JUST A NEW HEAD; IT MUST NOW BE TOTALLY RECONSTITUTED”

(Excerpts from his column published in the Manila Times, June 25, 2018) BS Aquino’s over-reach has now become mere child’s play beside President Rodrigo Duterte’s constitutional over-reach. Where Aquino corrupted Congress to remove an inflexible […]

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SC VOTE 10-4 FOR SERENO REMOVAL

In the end, Maria Lourdes P.A. Sereno brought down Maria Lourdes P.A. Sereno. The issue against her is in Section 3 Article VIII of the Constitution –“A member of the Judiciary must be a person […]

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PRESIDENT DUTERTE

According to the late Ramon Magsaysay (who was president from Dec. 30, 1953 to March 17, 1957), “the President should set the example of a big heart, an honest mind, sound instincts, the virtue of […]

Government

THE SUPREME COURT’S STATESMANSHIP

To me, three things stand out in the Supreme Court’s 11-3-1 July 4 decision upholding the legality and constitutionality of President Duterte’s May 23, 2017 proclamation of martial law in the entire island of Mindanao. […]