Minority holds line but fires off warning
'We, the pro-Constitution, believe that we should obey the Constitution…We don’t want it to get bent.'
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16-vote impeachment threshold
Latest Daily Tribune news and analysis on 16-vote impeachment threshold.
Kangaroo court
Staging a walkout is not really desirable, considering that the senator-judges have a sworn duty to uphold the integrity of the impeachment process despite the…
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Chilling effect
Politics will always be a numbers game, but the rules for counting those numbers must not become another political weapon.
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Paolo Duterte: SC should settle impeachment threshold dispute
Rep. Paolo Duterte said the Supreme Court should ultimately settle the dispute over how the two-thirds conviction threshold should be computed in Vice…
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Mark Villar breaks with minority on Sara conviction threshold; Imee cites pressure
Sen. Mark Villar broke with the minority bloc to support overturning the fixed 16-vote threshold in Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial, as six…
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Amnesia curiae
An opinion piece contrasts a former chief justice’s views on the Senate impeachment vote threshold with his earlier role in applying a Judicial and Bar Council…
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Friends of Malacañang?
To be honest, the administration is dead set on convicting the former Education Secretary, come hell or high water.
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Sixteen, or however many are left
This country does not suffer from a shortage of accusations against its officials — for plunder, unexplained wealth, bribery, and worse. It suffers from the…
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Lower guilt limit compromises court
Sara Duterte’s camp warns that lowering the Senate’s 16-vote impeachment conviction threshold could allow government influence over the trial.
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Former justices: Presence needed
Retired chief justices challenge the Senate’s 16-vote threshold for convicting Vice President Sara Duterte, citing the Constitution’s two-thirds requirement.
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Hands off Sara trial, BBM told: Is the President moving behind the scenes?
House prosecution spokesperson Robert Ace Barbers urged President Marcos to remain neutral in Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial as the Senate…
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Sweet sixteen
Sara’s political opponents are doing this not really to serve the ends of justice but to potentially block her expected run for the presidency in 2028.
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Threading rigged path
If participation itself has been manipulated, then any interpretation of the threshold that counts only those senators able or willing to sit in judgment would…
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