Foot-in-mouth seems to be an emerging recurring disease among the Yellowidiots as evident in Senator Risa Hontiveros’s most recent gaffe where she “cited [the Supreme Court ruling on the ‘League of Cities’ case] as one of the examples of the high court previously reversing itself in unanimous decisions.”
During the Senate’s deliberation on whether to archive the impeachment complaints, Hontiveros cited the League of Cities case as an example of the Court reversing a prior ruling on a motion for reconsideration.
She also referenced the “International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, Inc., et al. v. Greenpeace Southeast Asia” case, where a unanimous decision was similarly reversed.
However…
In a statement to media, SC spokesperson Camille Ting stated: “We clarify that the Supreme Court’s ruling in the League of Cities case was not unanimous. Please refer to the Decision and Resolutions published in the Supreme Court E-Library and the Philippine Reports.”
Ting added that the Court was “uncertain as to the source of the claim that the decision was unanimous.”
The operative phrase here is complete staff work. If the senate minority prepared well enough, their staff should’ve collaborated on a strategy against the majority.
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But as my professor in obligations and contracts 1 and 2, former Supreme Court Associate Justice Jose Reyes imparted to us, the law is not meant to be memorized but its nuances understood. This is the only way one can begin on the path to being a legal luminary.
The House of Representatives did not follow the procedure for the processing of an impeachment complaint with regard to the first three filed. If the so-called opposition had a strategy only one complaint should have been filed and go through the process stipulated in their rules.
It did not help also that the House of Representatives did not respond to the other specific queries of the Supreme Court, which all but confirmed, the bad faith on their part. This is why the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the petitioner.
Filipinos generally do not follow the law to the letter but look for loopholes to get around it. Just look at the case of the rendition of PRRD, it is very clear that he should have been brought to a local court Frist which would determine if the warrant of arrest was in order and he is accorded due process. But this did not happen.He was effectively shanghaied just because that is what was decided upon.
This is why we have become the laughingstock in ASEAN because we surrender our sovereignty to the West whenever convenient and then claim to be fighting for our sovereignty against China.
