Preaching, but no practising
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Malacañang and Congress should leave constitutionally well alone.
In the House’s and Malacañang’s bid to save face, they now say that they won’t have the judiciary’s hiring funds impounded by the Palace and released only when hires are made.
Now they say that these hiring funds will be given in full but imposed the condition that the hiring funds go to hiring and not used elsewhere, but with the judiciary now giving the Palace a report and accounting on how these funds are being spent.
The problem with this condition is the fact that it still impinges on the constitutionally-mandated fiscal autonomy of the judicial branch, which is still a constitutional no-no. But the House and Malacañang also know that if the 2012 budget carries this condition, such will be challenged before the high court and the Palace as well as the House will lose out on this issue, as it is the high court that rules what the law is..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111005com2.html
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