Duterte’s new lawyer: Will he have more success than Kaufman?
Will changing lawyers before actual trial help Rodrigo Duterte whose alleged crimes have been unanimously confirmed by the ICC pre-trial judges?
BREAKING: Gunfire erupts in the Senate
“We are under attack. Anyone watching this, we are the Senate of the Philippines…” Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano said in a brief online video message before he was cut off.
EXPLAINED: Why is an international fugitive holed up in the Senate?
De la Rosa spent Monday evening inside the premises after having been given protective custody by the new Senate President he helped install. It is looking like it would be a long-drawn standoff between de la Rosa and arresting officers eager to fly him to The Hague to undergo trial as an indirect co-conspirator in charges of crimes against humanity for the mass murder he allegedly participated in.
Kapag ang Senado ay Sangtuwaryo ng mga Kriminal…
ang mga bulwagang marmol nito/ay kikislap/hindi sa ngalan/ng batas/kundi sa sebo/ng kompromiso/at sa pabango/ng pagtataksil.
What to expect from the prosecution, defense teams during impeachment trial
Some non-lawyer senator-judges would have to rely on their digital tablets for feeds from their respective legal teams. Others, especially the intellectual lightweights, would not even bother to master the rules of court and would just vote on what is personally beneficial for them. When they rise up to speak, they would most likely provide the comic relief in the drama.
Stop harboring suspected mass murderer Bato de la Rosa
“The sanctuary provided by the Senate, under the leadership of Duterte loyalist Sen. Alan Cayetano, for a person wanted for mass murder is both shameful and utterly despicable. A lawmaking institution expected to serve as a bastion of accountability and justice is now unmasked as a hiding place for lawbreakers and enabler of impunity.”
Looney Tunes at the Senate
. It led to the most famous CCTV footage in the history of 110-year-old Senate. There was no wrestling. What happened was an entirely different sports event: a 100-meter dash, albeit up some stairs and through some doors.
Sara’s fate now rests with Cayetano
Cayetano may pretend to be a Christian fundamentalist who considers himself to be God’s ambassador to the House of Sinners, the Senate, but he is surely a political animal who thinks his time has come.
Warrant of arrest may be served against de la Rosa even inside the Senate
“Sen. Dela Rosa may personally challenge the warrant before the SC, but it is not the legal duty of the Senate to decide on the legality of his arrest as the Senate has no legal power to obstruct the enforcement of a warrant of arrest.”
Congress impeaches Duterte for the 2nd time in as many years
This is the second time in successive years and under two different Congresses that the controversial political figure had been impeached. Last year, Duterte had also been impeached by a vote of 215, more than two-thirds of the Lower House.