House Deputy Speaker La Union 1st district Rep. Paolo Ortega V clapped back at the twice-impeached Vice President Sara Duterte on Wednesday, June 10 for likening the Senate leadership squabble to the affairs of the Marcos administration. Ortega was reacting to the Vice President’s supposed...
Vice President Sara Duterte said on Wednesday, June 10, that she has entrusted all preparations for her upcoming Senate impeachment trial to her legal team, stressing that she will follow the advice and strategy crafted by her lawyers. In an interview in General Santos City, Duterte said she has...
Vice President Sara Duterte 's defense team will have to unveil the supposed individual that is “Mary Grace Piattos” before the respondent 's actual impeachment trial, if she is to be presented as a witness. Thus, said House prosecution panel spokesperson Lanao del Sur 2nd district...
Acting Senate President and Senate President Pro Tempore Sherwin Gatchalian affirmed on Wednesday, June 10 that 16 votes are still needed to convict Vice President Sara Duterte in the impeachment trial. Gatchalian said the 16 votes, or two-thirds vote, is a constitutional mandate and unaffected by...
Members of the House prosecution team in Vice President Sara Duterte 's upcoming impeachment trial said that a delay in the proceedings doesn 't equate to an advantage for the respondent. Public prosecutor Akbayan Party-list Rep. Chel Diokno and prosecution panel spokesperson Kabataan...
The Senate impeachment court has scheduled the pre-trial conference for the impeachment case against Vice President Sara Duterte on June 18, 2026, marking the next stage in the proceedings ahead of the trial proper. In a notice issued Tuesday, June 9, Presiding Officer and acting Senate President...
Lawyer-solon Batangas 2nd district Rep. Gerville "Jinky Bitrics" Luistro has shot down the proposal of Senator Alan Peter Cayetano 's bloc for an "interim administration" in the Senate with Acting Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian 's bloc. Luistro, the lead prosecutor in Vice President...
House prosecution panel leader, Batangas 2nd district Rep. Gerville "Jinky Bitrics" Luistro has warned the Senate that the Filipino people would be enraged if Vice President Sara Duterte 's impeachment trial gets swamped by delays. This, as the impasse between Senate blocs loyal to either...
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...
