Failed judicial coup
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
That Noynoy and even some of his senator-allies are meddling in the internal affairs of the judiciary — the Supreme Court specifically — has again been validated by yesterday’s report saying that two senators, who now sit as judges in the impeachment court, tried to broker an “arrangement” of a power-sharing deal between two SC justices: Renato Corona, chief justice, and Antonio Carpio, associate justice, who has a very moist eye set on the high court’s top position.
As this power-sharing deal was junked by Corona, his rejection of it paved the way for his impeachment, which everyone knows and which Noynoy and his aides can hardly deny, was engineered by Noynoy, as he himself had boasted that he was the brains behind it.
It was a judicial coup that was attempted but failed — and all to install Carpio as the CJ..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20120208com2.html
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