Marginalization of the SC
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House Minority Leader Edcel Lagman has noted that the recent assurance of Noynoy to investors in pushing the so-called public-private partnership (PPP) scheme — a mere refurbishing of the build-operate-transfer (BOT) scheme in which many of the graft-ridden government projects emanated — for the government to guarantee regulatory losses of big business projects, is another form of Noynoy’s legal shortcut and was meant to dull the effects of court decisions and even the enactment of new laws by Congress revising state policies on business.
It appears that Noynoy is bent on pursuing an all-out war against the Supreme Court (SC) whose head, Chief Justice Renato Corona, has been a long target of his for replacement, branding him as a midnight appointee of former President Arroyo despite the SC already having ruled that the appointment of the tribunal’s head does not fall within the ambit of the appointments ban under the Elections Code.
During a speech before law alumni of the state-owned University of the Philippines, Aquino again blasted away at the SC, referring broadly to the plagiarism allegations on one of the SC justices, Mariano del Castillo, in a ruling involving a compensation case filed by so-called comfort women.
Noynoy incidentally had a captive audience since it was the UP law community that is pushing the resignation of Del Castillo over his allegedly plagiarized ruling..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101122com1.html
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