Archive for February, 2012

SAYING THAT PROSECUTORS had laid down "sufficient evidence for the removal from office of Chief Justice Renato Corona," lead prosecutor Niel Tupas said the House prosecution team is now resting its case and withdrawing the five remaining articles of...

THE SUPREME COURT today stood firm and rejected the idea of court employees testifying before the impeachment court even as Presiding Officer Juan Ponce Enrile said he cannot force the hands of "a co-equal, separate, independent, and coordinate branch of...

CORY AQUINO AND Ferdinand Marcos will end up with special mentions in the official records of the Corona impeachment trial despite not having anything to do with the Supreme Court Chief Justice after a series of boo-boos by the 'veteran' players in the...

WHAT WAS SUPPOSED to be a simple process of authenticating the well-knwon video footage of former President Gloria Arroyo arriving at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport last November 15 in an attempt to leave the country turned into a much more...

February 28, 2012 · Posted in: General

Ka Pepe Diokno
and the Martial Law years

This is the second part of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism's (PCIJ) video series on Senator Jose "Pepe" Diokno in commemoration of the 90th anniversary of his birth and the 25th anniversary of his death. The second installment deals...

IT IS OFTEN SAID that the likes of Senators Jose W. Diokno and Lorenzo Tanada belong to an entirely different generation of lawyers and legislators. Theirs has been called the golden age of statesmanship and politics, a time when legislators could hold...

by Karol Ilagan IT'S BACK TO BASICS on the sixth week of the impeachment trial as the Senate sitting as an impeachment court tackles two issues at core –the standard of proof needed to determine the guilt of Chief Justice Renato C. Corona and the...