Let the Supreme Court decide C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 03/03/2010

Let the Supreme Court decide C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 03/03/2010 Now that the Supreme Court (SC) has been deluged with at least eight petitions on GMA’s power to appoint the replacement of Chief Justice Reynato Puno when he retires on May 17, it is hoped that the brouhaha over this issue will finally die down and the high court is given the opportunity to dissect this issue in as proper and objective a manner as befits it. For a time there, the public was harangued with all kinds of “push and pull” by various forces advocating wildly differing positions, the shrillest being those insisting that the appointment be left to the next President to make. While those advocating such position cited provisions of the 1987 Constitution to support their view it was clear from the way the argument progressed that, one, they had only contempt for the sitting president and two, that they simply wanted the most senior associate justice who happens to be Justice Antonio Carpio to be automatically appointed as the next Chief Justice. That these people insinuated that GMA was insistent in making the appointment even with a host of legal questions hanging just to “shield” her and her family from various cases which will surely come their way when she herself steps down from office by June 30 made their posture less than proper. But that is another story.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100303com4.html

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