Former Senator Leila de Lima must be getting a good taste of her foot now after she was forced to apologise to the Philippine Supreme Court after issuing unfounded statements regarding its dismissal of the impeachment complaints against Vice President Sara Duterte. It is, indeed, a rare treat to see a Yellowtard taking accountability for their action.
“Definitely, it is not my intention to falsely accuse the Supreme Court of not considering the side of the respondent House of Representatives. It is plainly evident in the decision, which I was able to read only after the release of my statement yesterday, that the House’s comments in the two impeachment petitions were indeed considered by the Court,” de Lima said.
“There is no excuse for this mistake, and I bear full responsibility for the same,” she added.
De Lima had earlier reportedly accused the high court of issuing a one-sided or ex-parte ruling on the matter…
“The House of Representatives, the principal respondent in the case, was not given the opportunity to file a formal Comment as required by Rule 65, Section 6 of the Rules of Court. No such order was issued by the Court,” said De Lima, a lawyer and former Justice secretary.
Then again this is not the first time de Lima disrespected the Philippines’ highest court.
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Back in 2019, following a Supreme Court ruling upholding her arrest over drug charges and denying “with finality” her appeals to reconsider, de Lima reached out to the United States government to coerce the Philippine government into releasing her from detention, in effect, looking to a foreign power to usurp the authority of the Philippines’ highest court. ABS-CBN News reported de Lima as having asserted that the “US gov’t recognizes her as clear victim of political persecution”.
A laudable apology today, true, but one on the back of behaviour with many precedents. One wonders how supposedly seasoned lawyers and public servants like Leila de Lima continue to find themselves foot-in-mouth over frailties in their ability to properly think things through before shooting off their trap.
Reflection is a skill “thought leaders” of the Yellowtard-Communist Axis badly need to acquire. They should seriously consider this if they aspire to be more competent politicians.
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Not sorry to tell you that the supreme court is not the highest arbiter of truth. They’re just another set of middlemen on top of other middlemen assuming to have coequal power. Centralized authority is a sham that is exposed when it is disarmed. Your vote doesn’t mean a thing when leaders can change their minds and decide to screw everybody, and then you’d have to wait years to hold them “accountable”. Education in this place is really just feeding ideas into people instead of challenging them to test ideas for themselves.