Noynoy-SC showdown looms By Aytch de la Cruz 10/22/2010

Noynoy-SC showdown looms

By Aytch de la Cruz 10/22/2010

It appears that President Aquino is bent on arranging a showdown with the Supreme Court (SC) as he matched fire with fire after Chief Justice Renato Corona’s description of a hostile Executive Branch the other day, saying yesterday that he is keeping his hardline position that the SC’s issuance of a status quo ante order on the Executive Order (EO) 2 was an interference with the affairs of the President.

Aquino, thus, merely shrugged off Corona’s assertion of the power of the pen of the judiciary, which he said will not allow itself to be intimidated in upholding its constitutional mandate.

Aquino told reporters yesterday that nothing has changed insofar as his position is concerned with respect to the rulings handed down by the high court lately which he described as clear interference in the affairs of its co-equal branches of government.

Apart from the status quo ante order on EO 2, which sought to terminate all so-called midnight appointees of former President Arroyo, Aquino said the same position applies to an SC ruling on the impeachment proceedings against Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez at the House of Representatives..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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