When giants disagree: Legal certainty limits amid Senate impasse
A prompt ruling, even one that disappoints one side, at least provides a definitive framework within which institutions and citizens can move forward.
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A prompt ruling, even one that disappoints one side, at least provides a definitive framework within which institutions and citizens can move forward.
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Nosy Tarsee has a riddle for you: A prominent politician from a powerful business family with Chinese roots was born in the Philippines when both his parents…
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Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso appealed to national leaders Monday to set aside political rivalries and find common ground to resolve the…
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Legislative bodies base a quorum on those members whom they can actually compel to show up. This is the premise on which the new majority acted.
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The Senate never ceases to humor us, to walk us through some labyrinthine passageway which looks more like it is leading to an escape rather than to freedom.
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Avelino may be the law of the case as far as the election of Cuenco as Senate President was concerned, but it established NO doctrine.
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Crow, apparently, is not a delicacy. Politicians generally spend entire careers finding ways not to eat it.
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Batangas 1st District Rep. Leandro Leviste expressed support for the Senate’s ongoing investigation into alleged flood control anomalies despite the…
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Senator Alan Peter Cayetano on Monday said he is prepared to relinquish his role as presiding officer of the impeachment court if Senator Sherwin Gatchalian…
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Embattled Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano on Monday accused the bloc led by acting Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian of operating under the influence of…
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Authorities arrested government contractor Curlee Discaya early Monday at the Senate for a non-bailable malversation case involving a P53.9-million flood…
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CANDON, Ilocos Sur — It turned from bad to worse for the embattled Philippine National Volleyball Federation (PNVF).
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Cayetano accused former Blue Ribbon chairman Panfilo Lacson of presenting false testimony in earlier flood control investigations.
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The so-called “18 ex-Marines” will skip the 8 June Blue Ribbon Committee hearing chaired by Sen. Erwin Tulfo after Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano advised them that…
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Several lawyers and law firms have pushed back against the Integrated Bar of the Philippines’ (IBP) position supporting the legality of the Senate…
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Senator Erwin Tulfo, a member of a family long known for made-for-television tough talk, found himself walking back his own rhetoric on Sunday after…
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Accelerating a just transition away from fossil fuels and towards renewables is the only sustainable path to lower costs and to real energy security.
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