Tag: lourdes sereno

CJ Lourdes Sereno faces the wrath of a Filipino public clamouring for her impeachment

November 22, 2017 benign0 5 Comments

The impeachment “trial” of Supreme Court Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno is an exercise that is political in nature — because it is a process conducted in and governed by Congress where popularity holds currency (in contrast to trials done in a court of law where standards to ensure logic and reason prevail are higher and…

Media, Politics

Duterte and Poe: one promises radical change and the other represents the status quo

March 24, 2016 Ilda 25 Comments

If popularity surveys are to be believed, it is going to be a close race between Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Grace Poe for the Presidency. Some people’s prediction that Poe’s popularity would surge after the Supreme Court decided to allow her to run did not come true. While she still maintains the…

Politics

Sereno Court judgment adds reason why Grace probably won’t be a good President

March 13, 2016 Hector Gamboa 34 Comments

The recent ruling of the Sereno Court, validating Sen. Grace Poe Llamanzares’ (GPL) claim that she is a natural born Filipino, has underscored the need for the voters to pick someone who has a competent understanding and appreciation of the supremacy of the Constitution and not the Supreme Court itself. The Supreme Court, afterall, was…

Charter Change, Government, Politics

US Supreme Court Justice Scalia dies: Filipinos should be familiar with the controversy of SC appointments

February 15, 2016February 15, 2016 FallenAngel 33 Comments

The news that recently came out of the United States was that one of its Supreme Court Justices, Antonin Scalia, died on February 13 of natural causes in a West Texas ranch. Appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) in 1986 by then president Ronald Reagan, Scalia has had a reputation as…

Government, Politics

CJ Sereno may have a point but Binay lawyers are still Correct!

April 28, 2015 Hector Gamboa 19 Comments

Last week, Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno scolded Makati Mayor Junjun Binay’s lawyers for basing their case on a “wrong doctrine”. The doctrine in question, is the Aguinaldo doctrine, which the Philippine Supreme Court itself has established and implemented since 1959. Justices Antonio Carpio and Estela Perlas-Bernabe held a much more level-headed view of raising…

Government, Politics

Philippine President Noynoy Aquino starts a bloodless civil war over #DAP!

July 16, 2014 benign0 20 Comments

War is now brewing between the Executive Branch of the Philippine government headed by President Benigno Simeon ‘BS” Aquino III and the Supreme Court headed by Aquino-appointed Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno. This is a path chosen by President BS Aquino after the epic fail that was his public address last Monday, the 14th July where…

Crime, Development, Government, Politics

The Fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Noynoy Aquino – July 22, 2013

July 21, 2013July 22, 2013 Ilda 200 Comments

President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino will be delivering his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 22, 2013. It has been three years since majority of Filipino voters elected the son of so-called “heroes” into the highest office in the land. Little did those voters know that after he banished the use…

Crime, Government, Politics, Society

Noynoy’s incompetence is undeniably a cause of death in Filipino society

March 6, 2013July 25, 2013 FallenAngel 27 Comments

If you do a quick search on the internet, or ask on the street about common causes of death in Filipino society, you are most likely to hear things like smoking, heart disease, violence-related deaths, obesity, road traffic accidents, and so on and so forth. Recent events in Sabah with the men from the sultanate…

Crime, Culture, Government, Politics, Society, The South