MERGED: All About the Corona Impeachment

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[f3a_champ]

Whatever the outcome, let's get this done with and move on. This issue is so not good for the country and is reflective of a petty, narrow-minded and vindictive administration who does not know what their priorities should be. Until our politicians stop their culture of running after their predecessors, our country will sadly remain archaic and chaotic with no hope for true progress and reforms. Just my honest 2 cents worth.

[Vino Kid]

excited nmn ko sa voting kaso naay trabaho. naa kahay live sa internet? magtanaw nlng ko via internet..

naa na pirmi, live streaming via sunstar, gmanews live tv, abs cbn website ug daghan pa nga mosulpot lng nga link aired by individual capable magbroadcast...

search google daghan makita... also naay poster diri gapost ug private link for trial lang after that the link will be deleted...

[Vino Kid]

dili lagi siya accountant, mao ra na iya itubag LOL... hahahaha.... butangee....

[taga_ipil]

hehehe...

Prosecutor Rodolfo Fariñas: 'Nagpapalusot ang CJ' | Chief Justice On Trial | GMA News Online | The Go-To Site for Filipinos Everywhere

[reptoid]

Whatever the outcome, let's get this done with and move on. This issue is so not good for the country and is reflective of a petty, narrow-minded and vindictive administration who does not know what their priorities should be. Until our politicians stop their culture of running after their predecessors, our country will sadly remain archaic and chaotic with no hope for true progress and reforms. Just my honest 2 cents worth.

While it's true that this issue has split the nation I think this could be a long overdue catalyst for reform in which case it will all have been worthwhile. Accountability not impunity should be the new mantra for voters and officials alike.

[Calibrator]

According to former CJ Davide, Impeachment does not send a chilling effect to the Judiciary, but instead, a cleansing effect ( in contrast to TJ Crookie's view )

Read below :


Davide: CJ trial may have cleansing effect on judiciary

Exclusive report by Ces Oreña Drilon, ABS-CBN News
Posted at 05/28/2012 10:33 PM | Updated as of 05/29/2012 7:08 AM


Ex-CJ says it's wrong for Corona to use foreign currency law


MANILA, Philippines - Former Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr. believes that Chief Justice Renato Corona Jr. should have declared his dollars in his statements of assets, liabilities, and net worth (SALNs) as required by the Constitution and the law.

Davide told ANC's "Pipol" in an exclusive interview that Corona's position on the confidentiality of dollar deposits does not hold water.

"The law itself, the Foreign Currency Deposit Act (FCDA), was impliedly repealed by the 1973 Constitution because it was passed in 1972, and as well as the 1987 Constitution and by Republic Act 6713 [Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials]," he said.

"Consequently, it cannot be availed of. So the chief justice cannot say that 'I did not disclose the dollar deposits because I had no written authority from me to disclose it,'" he added.

Corona admitted last Friday that he did not declare $2.4 million of his supposed dollar deposits due to the absolute confidentality clause in the FCDA law.

Davide, however, said Corona's stand is incorrect.

"The law allows amendments to the FCDA that might reduce the rights therein granted. RA 6713 effectively reduced that right, assuming that he was covered, benefitted by the FCDA," he explained.

"His rights thereunder were effectively reduced by RA 6713. I would say that RA 6713 reduced whatever right he had under FCDA," Davide added.

Cleansing, not chilling, effect

He also disagrees with Corona's belief that his impeachment trial sent a chilling message to the judiciary.

Davide said an impeachment trial upholds checks and balances in the a democratic form of government.

"I respect his [Corona's] opinion but I cannot agree with the principle involved. If that were so, the Constitution would have not provided the mechanism for the impeachment, including the chief justice and the members of the Supreme Court to be among the impeachable officers," he said.

"There is nothing to fear when it comes to the impeachment of a particular individual," he added.

"If you have not committed anything impeachable in character, the trial itself may be a catalyst in order to prove that all [allegations] were really manufactured or fabricated," Davide said.

"If it will be proven that he [Corona] has committed an impeachable offense, it will have a cleansing effect on the judiciary," he said. "A healthy process, the maturation of our democratic institutions."

Davide said the people must respect the Senate's verdict, whatever it may be.

"We have to trust the impeachment court. Whatever its decision, we have to respect it. That is still part of the rule of law," he said.

The former chief justice said the impeachment court is the people's court, the people cast their vote through the senator judges and their verdict is an expression of the people's will. - report from ANC


http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/-depth/05...fect-judiciary

[bot_yok]

waste of time.. waste of 5million hahaha.. kta mga taxpayers ang guilty.. pildi jud ta bisan unsaon.

[reptoid]

waste of time.. waste of 5million hahaha.. kta mga taxpayers ang guilty.. pildi jud ta bisan unsaon.

5 million is just a drop in the ocean compared to the billions of pesos misappropriated, used to pay for special political favors and hidden from the BIR each year.

[PagkahomotSAimongUTOToi]

grabeha noh 7million 5 months. . d kasugakod akong hunahuna ana kadako nga kwarta!