Members of the House prosecution panel are urging law schools, communities, and civil society groups to organize "impeachment trial watch parties" once the Senate impeachment court begins hearing the case against Vice President Sara Duterte. Prosecution panel spokesperson, Kabataan Party-list Rep....
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano on Monday, June 8 asserted he is the legal Senate President and therefore, will be the presiding officer in Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial. Cayetano, in a hastily called press briefing, said he has to assert his standing as the Senate impeachment...
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon criticized the 18 "maleta boys" for failing to appear Monday, June 8 in the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing headed by panel chairman Senator Erwin Tulfo. This, after the group of former Marines and bodyguard launched what Ridon called a "sensationalized...
Vice President Sara Duterte 's "non-answer" doesn 't even need or deserve a substantive response from prosecutors. Such was the gist of the 11-member House prosecution panel 's manifestation--filed on Monday, June 8--before the Senate impeachment court on the subject of the Duterte...
Citing what he calls a "political trend", House Deputy Speaker La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega V sees the new Senate majority under Acting Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian gaining even more size and strength in the coming days. Speaking in a DZBB interview on Sunday, June 7, Ortega said...
Vice President Sara Duterte 's Senate impeachment trial will push through, no matter how hard you try to destroy the House prosecution panel 's credibility. This is House prosecutor Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon 's stern message to the panel 's detractors over the...
A ranking member of the House of Representatives is willing to support calls for a special session if only to allow the Senate to straighten out its leadership squabble. House Committee on Justice Chairperson Batangas 2nd district Rep. Gerville “Jinky Bitrics” Luistro said a special session...
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon says the House prosecution panel is now in its final stages of its preparations for the upcoming Senate impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. More importantly, Ridon, a member of the panel, expressed supreme confidence that the public prosecutors...
Former Surigao del Norte 2nd district Rep. Robert Ace Barbers assailed the June 4 Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing for facilitating what he described as "destabilization moves" against the Marcos administration. “Since when did it become legal to plot destabilization moves in broad daylight...
What happens if the House prosecution panel receives separate notices from the two competing leaderships in the Senate in connection with Vice President Sara Duterte 's impeachment trial. Batangas 2nd district Rep. Gerville "Jinky Bitrics" Luistro, the leader of the prosecution team, said they...
Batangas 2nd district Rep. Gerville “Jinky Bitrics” Luistro sees no problem with Acting Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian presiding over the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, even if he 's not a lawyer. Luistro, the lead House prosecutor in the upcoming trial, expressed...
Acting Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian on Thursday, June 4 said he will be acting as the presiding officer of the impeachment court for the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. Gatchalian confirmed this during a press briefing at the Senate, a day after the new majority bloc amended the rules...
