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When the Senate impeachment court allows the threshold to fall to a smaller number, such as 14, it effectively changes the requirement written into the…
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When the Senate impeachment court allows the threshold to fall to a smaller number, such as 14, it effectively changes the requirement written into the…
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If 16 votes can be reduced when the presiding coalition finds it inconvenient, then the same logic transfers cleanly to any other provision built on a fixed…
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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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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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If the Senate ultimately rejects the fixed 16-vote rule, a trip to the Supreme Court seems almost inevitable.
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Senator Rodante Marcoleta questioned the Senate impeachment court’s review of the two-thirds conviction threshold, as legal experts offered differing views on…
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The trial concentrates the roles of accuser, prosecutor and judge in one branch at once, and the Constitution answered with an internal check: no faction,…
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