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CJSereno VS Duterte: A timeline to impeachment (Part 2: 2017)

Wherein 2016 Duterte revealed himself to be very defensive about the war on drugs, and therefore ready to attack anyone at all — including the Chief Justice — for putting it into question, in 2017 he was on a roll, blaming practically everything on the Supreme Court, and specifically on Sereno.

He continued to be hung-up on the judiciary imposing TROs on government projects, even when early on Sereno had clarified that there were very few such TROs. He started stating as fact the allegations against Sereno detailed in Larry Gadon’s impeachment complaint. He insisted that Sereno was part of a plot to oust him from the Presidency, alongside the Left, the Dilawan, the Ombudsman, and Trillanes.

Talk about Presidential paranoia.

Here’s how Duterte’s men in the House of Representative decided to give him Sereno’s head on a silver platter.  (more…)

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CJSereno VS Duterte: A timeline to impeachment (Part 1: 2016)

For anyone at all who even thinks for a minute that the CJ Sereno impeachment is exactly the same as the CJ Corona impeachment, here’s a huge difference: Corona was a midnight appointee of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who was allowed to do a midnight appointment, expressly disallowed by the Constitution but allowed by a CJ Reynato Puno Supreme Court. If that name’s familiar, he’s now in charge of the Consultative Commission for ChaCha (can you smell the stench of Prime Minister GMA?) — the rest of the story’s here. In that sense pNoy was actually and in fact undoing an illegal midnight appointment by GMA in his push to impeach Corona. At any other time, a President like Duterte would be praising pNoy for righting a wrong.

Ah, but we are in this time, when Duterte is the model of the most petty, most juvenile President this side of town — America has its own problems after all. And in this world where Duterte is king, and Congress reps and every other hooligan or clown lawyer is ready to fall at his feet and deliver whoever’s head he wants on a platter, we watched as Senator Leila de Lima was jailed for not much else but rumors and very flimsy, highly questionable proof of culpability; as we are watching Chief Justice Sereno being brought to an impeachment court.  (more…)