The Foundation for Liberty and Prosperity (FLP) will award 20 legal scholarships at P250,000 each (or a total of P5 million), five fellowships to students taking Master of Business Administration (MBA), or its equivalent, specializing in entrepreneurship, sustainability, management, economics or business law (Esmel) at P500,000 each (total of P2.5 million), and several winners in…
To vent his frustration over the Senate’s 19-4-1 vote that “archived” the Articles of Impeachment filed by the House of Representatives (HOR), Senator Tito Sotto is reviving the long-archived proposal to revise and/or amend the Constitution, more popularly referred to as Cha-Cha (Charter Change). The former Senate president said that Cha-Cha via a Constituent Assembly…
Much has been written, broadcasted and streamed disagreeing with, nay, criticizing heavily, the unanimous decision of the Supreme Court in Duterte v. House of Representatives or HOR (July 25, 2025, per SAJ Marvic M.V.F. Leonen, en banc, 13-0-2) declaring unconstitutional the Articles of Impeachment filed against Vice President Sara Z. Duterte for violating her right to…
On July 14, I wrote that the Supreme Court disciplines its members. Question of readers: Does it also discipline the justices of the Court of Appeals, the Court of Tax Appeals and the Sandiganbayan as well as the trial judges of the Regional Trial Courts, Metropolitan Courts and Municipal Courts? ANSWER: YES. In fact, under its…
Last Monday, I raised three major issues in the Konektadong Pinoy bill (KP) recently passed by Congress and awaiting presidential action. These are the violations (1) of, and the consequential inability of the government to avail of the protection granted by Article XII, Section 17 of the Constitution; (2) of the equal protection clause under…