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  2. Go, Padilla ask SC: Restore 16-vote rule

    Go, Padilla ask SC: Restore 16-vote rule

    Senators Bong Go and Robin Padilla, along with PDP-Laban and other petitioners, asked the Supreme Court to restore the 16-vote threshold for conviction in Sara…

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  4. Second threshold SC challenge filed

    Second threshold SC challenge filed

    A lawyer asks the Supreme Court to overturn the Senate impeachment court’s ruling on the votes needed to convict Vice President Sara Duterte, arguing that 16…

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  5. ROMUALDEZ

    Sandiganbayan: Romualdez yet to request bail

    Former House Speaker Martin Romualdez has yet to file a bail petition in his pending P7.4-billion plunder case, as the Sandiganbayan prepares for his pre-trial…

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  7. Sara asks SC: Stop grave threats case

    Sara asks SC: Stop grave threats case

    Duterte claimed that, as an incumbent impeachable official, she enjoys ‘limited procedural immunity’ from criminal prosecution while in office.

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  8. Hocus bonus

    Hocus bonus

    Energized by the trust placed in me by the second-highest official of the land (and a bar topnotcher to boot), like the Energizer Bunny, I ran home and kept…

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  9. Pork by another name?

    Pork by another name?

    Fresh legal challenges to the Bangsamoro region’s proposed budget and discretionary local government funds have raised questions over executive spending…

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  11. MEDIA social activity are held at the Senate following recent traumatic incidents, including the 13 May shootout inside the complex.

    SC asked to uphold Win bloc’s takeover

    A senior high school teacher has petitioned the Supreme Court to validate the Senate leadership takeover by the Win Gatchalian bloc, arguing that the 3 June…

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  12. Families of the EJK victims watch the International Criminal Court (ICC) confirmation of charges hearing against former President Rodrigo Duterte in his crimes against humanity case linked to the government’s anti-drug campaign, held at Atencio Libunao Hall in the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, on Monday, 23 February 2026.

    A Duterte appeal

    A Japanese NGO asked the UN to support Rodrigo Duterte. The Philippines says the effort will go nowhere.

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  13. PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

    OSG wants Marcos med tests bid junked

    The OSG argued that the petitioners lack legal standing to file the case, noting that they merely identified themselves as taxpayers, voters and concerned…

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  15. SHOTS fired Crime scene tape cordons off the spots where Senate security personnel and National Bureau of Investigation operatives exchanged gunfire in what critics later described as an ‘acoustic shootout.’ The noise echoed louder after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and NBI chief Melvin Matibag insisted there had been no NBI arrest operation at all.

    OSG answering SC over ICC plea

    The OSG said the resolution was uploaded at 6:44 p.m. on 13 May, giving government lawyers until 6:44 p.m. on 16 May to respond.

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  16. Senator Bato de la Rosa returned to the Senate on Monday, 11 May, after six months of being absent, allegedly to evade an ICC warrant. He sustained a bruise on his finger following a scuffle with operatives of the National Bureau of Investigation, who attempted to arrest him at the Senate premises.

    DoJ unaware of ICC arrest vs Bato

    ‘This is fatal. A subpoena cannot be used as a convenient pretext to physically bring a person to Camp Crame while the government awaits a possible…

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  17. SC tells BBM: Respond to drug test plea

    SC tells BBM: Respond to drug test plea

    The petition for a writ of mandamus asks the SC to direct Marcos to submit to a comprehensive medical evaluation, including a hair follicle drug test, and to…

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