A verdict seen as purely partisan risks stripping the process of legitimacy. This dynamic was evident in the aborted ...
Like in a court of law, the prosecutors will try to show that indeed the VP committed culpable violations of the Constitution and betrayal of public ...
What will happen starting June 2 when Escudero formally convenes the Senate into a court?” My column last Thursday, Feb. 6, was filed Tuesday morning, as ...
Know the fundamentals of impeachment. The vice president has already been impeached. Of course, she has not yet been tried by the Senate or convicted. The complainants may not have the support of 16 ...
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The right to impeach
We must not repeat what happened during former president Joseph "Erap" Ejercito Estrada's botched impeachment trial. In 2000, during the run-up to that impeachment trial, two powerful former ...
This is not to say that the impeachment call has no valid grounds, but we look to the lessons of Edsa People Power Revolution II, where an elitist discourse justified the removal of Erap Estrada, and ...