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San Beda law dean, 2 ex-SC justices back start of impeachment trial

Several legal and academic luminaries expressed agreement yesterday that Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial should not be delayed any further, stating that the...

Censorship, opacity, and misplaced zeal

“What were our senators thinking?” BACK at work after the May 12 midterm elections, our outgoing batch of senators passed several pieces of legislation this...

Impeach or not impeach

“In any impeachment  trial, we have to consider the legal and the political aspect” WITH 24 senators sitting down as judges in the impeachment trial...

This is not an earthquake drill

Senators and employees pile out of the Senate building in PasayCity following a 4.6 intensity tremor that shook Lucena City in Quezon yesterday afternoon.

Tug-of-war over Senate presidency already afoot

Senators appear to have drawn the battle lines with their eyes dead set on the upper chamber’s top spot, even while the opening of...

Senators, CBCP exec support Marcos-Duterte reconciliation

Senators and an official of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines on Tuesday welcomed President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s openness to reconciling with the...

‘Bloodbath’

Now that the winning senators have been proclaimed by the Commission on Elections, many Filipinos are pondering how they, aside from those already sitting,...

Vote wisely on May 12

“Do vote and encourage others to do so for those with proven track records in public service and have unblemished integrity” WE HAVE 18 days...

What if?

“But acquittal is not a consummation to be countenanced by Malacanang” It seems quite predictable that the trial of Vice-President Inday Sara Duterte will be...

No plans to hold formal caucus, Escudero confirms

Senate President Francis Escudero ruled out the possibility of an all-senator caucus for now, despite calls from Senators Aquilino Pimentel III and Risa Hontiveros. “I...

Koko seeks all-senators caucus

Cites need to explain differing positions on VP impeachment trial Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel III yesterday said he will call for an all-senators caucus...

Choose the worthy candidates

In May this year, Filipinos will cast their votes for senators and party-list representatives as well as congressmen, provincial governors and city and town...

Senators not intimidated by Rody’s kill remark—Escudero

Senate President Francis Escudero does not believe any of his colleagues in the upper chamber were particularly intimidated by former President Rodrigo Duterte’s remark...

Transitions

“We hope that good economics will thwart bad politics after the noise dies down in the acrimonious mid-term elections” LOST in the welter of political...
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