Perfect timing, perfect venue
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| Larry Faraon, OP |
To, where else do you think would be the best venue to lash out at the judiciary and the Supreme Court (SC)? President Noynoy Aquino thought it well to do so at the First National Criminal Justice Summit last Monday. Great idea! At least the points he wanted to get across went right to the faces of the practitioners and dispensers of justice themselves. It was quick, no pretensions, no diplomatic assuages, no sugar-coating, but straightforward, direct to the point informal critique on what is going on the state of the dispensation of justice in this country, including loopholes on judicial appointments. Of course, nothing said in the speech was sub-judice. It’s just all about propriety and rough edges in the rule of law and an impending constitutional crisis, as alarmists love to augur.
While politico-legal minds are alternating in lashing out on the “disrespectful” and “unpresidential” manners of P-Noy in that venue and occasion, using as rationalization “constitutional courtesy to the equal branches of government,” still these legal eggheads should realize that the “equality and independence among the three branches of government” shouldn’t be understood as “territorial” autonomy or a sort of exclusivity clause. Rather, such constitutional arrangement is based on the democratic principles of “checks and balances.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111211com6.html
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