Impeachment: Too much of a political tool
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No impeachable officer — and that includes Supreme Court (SC) justices, along with the President and Vice President of the Republic --- wants to undergo an impeachment process, mainly because it has become too much of a political tool and performed by Congress whose many members can be bought off or bribed with a promise of an important posting under a new government — if a president is made to undergo an impeachment process, as it was in the case of then sitting President Joseph Estrada, where both the Senate and House opposition broke all rules, and even the rule of law, just to get Estrada ousted, as the political opposition wanted to be in power and position under a new government.
Source: The Daily Tribune
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