Luistro warns impeachment chaos looms sans SC ruling
Lead public prosecutor Gerville Luistro warns of possible legal complications if the Supreme Court rules on the impeachment conviction threshold after the…
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Customs drive leads to Canadian trash Conviction
A Manila court has convicted the owner of Chronic Plastics for illegally importing prohibited plastic waste from Canada in 2013, in violation of Republic Act…
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Conviction threshold’s two-way verification process
At no time and no person with typical reverence for the constitutional text ought to change 24 as the starting number, the independent variable in this case.
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Numbers game
What began as a tense constitutional contest now looks more like a process shaped by an organized majority with a clear political interest.
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High Court dismisses threshold challenge
The Supreme Court dismissed three petitions challenging the Senate impeachment court’s revised voting threshold for convicting Vice President Sara Duterte,…
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Torreon readies SC bid
Lawyer Israelito Torreon is preparing a Supreme Court petition challenging the Senate impeachment court’s decision to lower the conviction threshold in Vice…
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WHEN 16 IS NOT 16: Senate rewrites impeach math
The Senate impeachment court voted to lower the conviction threshold in Vice President Sara Duterte’s trial from 16 to 14 votes by counting only senator-judges…
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Threshold shift risks mistrial
Vice President Sara Duterte’s defense team challenged the Senate impeachment court’s reconsideration of the conviction threshold, warning that changing the…
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Litmus test
The two-thirds vote requirement is not just a procedural technicality; it is a constitutional principle meant to ensure that any conviction reflects…
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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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Sara defense warns vs reopening conviction threshold
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Not so simple
If the Senate ultimately rejects the fixed 16-vote rule, a trip to the Supreme Court seems almost inevitable.
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VP Sara legal team preps for orals
The oral arguments will center on the disputed 16-vote threshold for conviction in Duterte’s impeachment trial.
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Can you jail a senator’s vote?
You removed two no votes and somehow yes became harder? So now maybe conviction should need only 14 yesses instead of 16.
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