Senator-judge Robin Padilla 's old-fashioned insult toward House prosecutors Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon and Mamamayang Liberal (ML) Party-list Rep. Leila de Lima earned him a dignified--but still punchy--response from Ridon. The tit-for-tat stemmed from Padilla comments on the...
Vice President Sara Duterte remains on the list of personalities invited to President Marcos 's State of the Nation Address (SONA) at the House of Representatives this coming Monday, July 27. House Secretary General Cheloy Garafil confirmed over the weekend that an invitation had indeed been...
Two deputy speakers in the House of Representatives can 't help but feel that Vice President Sara Duterte 's continued refusal to personally answer the charges in her impeachment trial is a sign of guilt. La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega V and Zambales 1st district Jay Khonghun,...
House impeachment adviser and prosecution panel spokesperson Robert Ace Barbers pointed out that 70 percent of Filipinos believe Vice President Sara Duterte must answer her impeachment charges. Barbers had this to say Friday, July 24, as he doused cold water on Duterte’s supposed continued...
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon doesn 't see anything wrong or offensive with House lead prosecutor Batangas 2nd district Rep. Gerville "Jinky Bitrics" Luistro’s act of asking a question to Senator-judge Robin Padilla for the sake of clarity. Nonetheless, Ridon, himself a prosecutor...
Seven in 10 adult Filipinos believe that Vice President Sara Duterte must address the impeachment charges against her and respond to the allegations of corruption, according to a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey conducted days before her impeachment trial was set to begin. The June 20-29 survey...
The House prosecution panel plans to present article against the impeached Vice President Sara Duterte in the same way that it presented article IV of the articles of impeachment. That is, by striking hard and striking fast. Private prosecutor and spokesperson Benjamin “Jay” Tolosa Jr. bared on...
Ranking congressmen have chided Vice President Sara Duterte for asking the Senate to foot the bill for her defense team 's preferred caterer during the course of the official 's impeachment trial there. Based on Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon and Akbayan Party-list Rep. Perci...
Malacañang maintained that the Senate sitting as an impeachment court should determine whether Vice President Sara Duterte 's tax records should be obtained as evidence in her impeachment trial, saying the administration would simply follow the legal process. Presidential Communications...
Iloilo 1st district Rep. Janette Garin says the Senate might find as "insulting" the request of Vice President Sara Duterte 's camp for the upper chamber to shoulder the catering cost of her impeachment trial defense team. In particular, the House deputy speaker took issue with the reported...
House Deputy Speaker Iloilo 1st district Rep. Janette Garin said that if anybody in the Senate impeachment court has to be bias-free or neutral, it 's the senator-judges. Garin gave this general reminder to the public following Vice President Sara Duterte 's impeachment trial Wednesday,...
House lead prosecutor Batangas 2nd district Rep. Gerville "Jinky Bitrics" Luistro can 't help but feel "deprived" from the questioning she received in open court Wednesday, July 23 from Senators Robin Padilla and Pia Cayetano. In a press conference after Wednesday’s Senate impeachment trial...
