On the impeachment case

If you look at it from the point of view of certain grounds invoked (failure to declare assets and liabilities, that one about his wife’s appointment), the impeachment case against CJ Corona is not really an attack on the judiciary. It’s an attempt to make this guy accountable. Fine, well, and good.

But if you look at it from the point of view of majority of the grounds, it actually is an attack on the judiciary. It is an attack on decisions made by the Supreme Court as a body. It’s the congress effectively saying that those decisions are wrong, at least wrong enough to make them grounds for impeachment…which means they’re really really wrong. (Who are you to say that Congress?)

What they could’ve done is discussed the articles of impeachment and waited maybe a day or two before having it signed and passed on to the Senate. Then they would’ve gotten all the flimsy grounds out and built a more robust, and less politically charged (kahit papano) case which would sit better with the people (at least those who are questioning it).

I wrote about my thoughts already here

and recently released was CJ Corona’s answer to the impeachment case

Even if the guy is a bit shady, doesn’t mean you have to be, Noynoy.

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