House asks SC to lift status quo ante
By Charlie V. Manalo 10/05/2010Speaker Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. yesterday asked the Supreme Court (SC) to lift its status quo ante order and to respect the “exclusive power” of the House of Representatives in initiating the impeachment case against Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez.
In his Motion for Leave to Intervene and Comment in Intervention Ex Abundanti Cautela, the Speaker said the status quo ante order issued by the Court “emasculates the power of the House of Representatives to exact any form of accountability” from the Ombudsman, and endows Gutierrez with “the status of an untouchable.”
The Speaker also defended the House committee on justice against allegations that it violated the constitutional provision which bars the initiation of impeachment proceedings against the same official more than once within a period of one year.
Two impeachment complaints against the Ombudsman were filed separately but they were referred to the committee on justice simultaneously..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101005hed6.html
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