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SC junks petitions vs lower impeach vote to convict (opens the original)
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MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court has junked the three petitions challenging the ruling of the Senate impeachment court that allowed a lower number of votes to convict Vice President Sara Duterte. The Supreme Court dismissed the three separate petitions filed by former executive secretary Vic Rodriguez, lawyer Ernesto Francisco Jr. and disbarred lawyer Berteni Causing, according to the SC’s press briefer issued yesterday. Their petitions were shelved due to “lack of standing and prematurit
OP, others given 5 days to answer BSKE deferment plea (opens the original)
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MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court (SC) has directed the Office of the President, the Commission on Elections and both chambers of Congress to comment within five days on the petition against the postponement of the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) to November 2028. The SC’s order stemmed from a petition for certiorari and prohibition filed by election lawyer Romulo Macalintal contesting the implementation of Republic Act 12326 postponing the elections. RA 12326 was signed
BSKE postponement challenged before SC (opens the original)
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MANILA, Philippines — A legal challenge has been filed with the Supreme Court (SC), aiming to junk the law postponing anew the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) to November 2028. The 21-page petition for certiorari and prohibition, submitted through electronic filing on Sunday, asked the SC for a temporary restraining order and/or status quo ante order that would stop the implementation of Republic Act 12326. RA 12326, signed by President Marcos last week and made immediately ex
Romualdez to seek bail from Sandigan today (opens the original)
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MANILA, Philippines — Former speaker Martin Romualdez is expected to ask the Sandiganbayan to grant him bail over the various charges against him linked to P7.4 billion worth of alleged kickbacks from flood control projects. Two of the charges against Romualdez normally do not warrant bail: plunder and malversation. But the Sandiganbayan recently allowed former senator Bong Revilla to post bail on his plunder case. The camp of the Leyte first district lawmaker “manifested his intent to file his
Vhong’s attackers to be freed (opens the original)
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MANILA, Philippines — Four people behind the 2014 assault on actor and television host Vhong Navarro will be released from prison after having their sentence reduced. The Court of Appeals has ordered the release of Deniece Cornejo, Cedric Lee, Simeon Raz and Ferdinand Guerrero. Cornejo, whose allegations of rape and acts of lasciviousness against Navarro had been junked by the Supreme Court, will be out of prison in the coming weeks, her former lawyer Ferdinand Topacio said. “Justice has been do
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