As expected, Duterte’s men in the House of Representatives who live to serve their king, today delivered the Chief Justice’s head on a silver platter, deciding that there is probable cause to impeach Maria Lourdes Sereno.

Now that it is going to happen, it seems important to start looking at what exactly they’ve been wasting public funds on since July of last year, starting with of course the fact of Larry Gadon’s 60+ pages of an impeachment complaint, probably one of the most terribly written, hilarious documents you will find. See, this won’t even pass as a college argumentative research paper, as all its sources are ahem … newspaper clippings.

And then there is its premise: that Sereno is mentally ill, which is why she has committed all the crimes detailed by Gadon. But in the Committee on Justice hearings, that part about mental illness is only “discussed” at the tail-end of the proceedings, excluding of course SoH Alvarez already calling Sereno “baliw” as early as Nov 2017 for refusing to appear in the House to cross-examine the witnesses herself. Never mind that Sereno has a right to have counsel question those witnesses — a right denied her by Alvarez’s Congress.

And really, if anything, Sereno’s refusal to appear in the House, to defend herself in front of Congress Reps who have pre-judged her and are out to get her — that’s proof that she got her head screwed on straight. Only the delusional would think any Duterte critic will get justice and fairness at the HoR. (more…)