The real score EDITORIAL 03/20/2010

The real score

EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 03/20/2010 If those who protest against the Supreme Court ruling saying that the incumbent can appoint the new Chief Justice -- arising from the expected vacancy due to the retirement of CJ Reynato Puno -- think they can, through their antics, get the SC to reverse the ruling, they may just have to have another think coming. Their ploy just won’t work. It must be asked, however, why these groups — mostly identified as supporters of Liberal Party (LP) presidential bet Sen. Noynoy Aquino — protest too much, even to the point of saying that the high court amended the Constitution through this ruling, when they, in 2001, praised the tribunal to high heavens when the high court clearly amended the Constitution by issuing a ruling claiming that ousted President Joseph Estrada was deemed to have “constructively resigned,” based on an unauthenticated diary of his final hours, in newsclipping form yet and written by a third person..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100320com1.html