Leila B. Salaverria
Philippine Daily Inquirer
6:32 am | Friday, December 6th, 2013
MANILA, Philippines—Some members of the House of Representatives are bent on taking on the Supreme Court for the supposed tyranny of its justices.
A prosecutor in the impeachment trial of former Chief Justice Renato Corona is intent on filing an impeachment case against certain magistrates for their “despotism,†as evidenced, he said, by their decision declaring the lawmakers’ Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), or pork barrel, as unconstitutional, and for disqualifying Regina Reyes as Marinduque representative.
Oriental Mindoro Rep. Reynaldo Umali, a member of the ruling Liberal Party, on Thursday said he was working on gathering the support of one-third of his 289 colleagues, the number needed to initiate an impeachment complaint.
Umali, however, declined to identify the justices he was referring to.
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