Legal but immoral By Ronald Roy COMMENT 01/21/2010

Legal but immoral By Ronald Roy COMMENT 01/21/2010 It is shocking that no less than the Philippine Constitution Association (Philconsa) has given its imprimatur to Malacañang henchmen’s damnable position that their benefactress Gloria Arroyo has the power to appoint — without a recommendation from the Judicial Bar Council — the Chief Justice (CJ) of the Supreme Court (SC) in the last 90 days of her term. This earth-shaking development --- not that nobody did not expect it — has exacerbated the acrimony between the administration and the political opposition. It must then be seriously wondered why Philconsa has chosen to broaden further the fake President’s leeway for abuse of power, particularly of appointive privileges, which were never hers in the first place..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20100121com7.html

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