What are they thinking?
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| Jonathan De la Cruz |
I am referring to Sen. Ping Lacson, the celebrated “go to” personality for many high profile exposés and his equally celebrated counterweight, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima. At the rate they are going with their media blitzes on all kinds of cases sometimes to the point of going against each other, there may come a time when people will start asking what are these people up to. That time may well be now after both dished out baffling statements which to ordinary mortals like us. Betray their seeming contempt for the rule of law and our judicial processes. In fact, some observers have come to regard their issuances as bordering on the unethical or even self-serving.
Take the case of Lacson’s threat to use his veto power as a member of the powerful Commission on Appointments (CA) to reject the confirmation of De Lima if and this is really a big IF “she cannot issue warrants of arrest against the spouses Mike and Gloria Arroyo” by the time the lady executive gets to sit before the CA again this month. Going ballistic over what he calls the Department of Justice (DoJ)’s snail-paced action on cases of alleged irregularities involving the Arroyos and other denizens of the previous administration, the Cavite solon has gone overboard himself asking De Lima to do what legal luminaries believe is legally impossible..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110905com4.html
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