We strongly denounce the Senate majority’s decision to return the Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte without dismissing or trying the case. Instead of letting her face the music, they gave her a backstage pass — shielding her from facing the music of public accountability and justice.
Through procedural acrobatics and legal technicalities, they threw a monkey wrench into the process — reducing a solemn constitutional duty into nothing more than political theater.
The Senate could have conditionally proceeded while allowing the House, in a pre-trial conference, to:
1. Certify that there was no violation of the one-year impeachment bar under Article XI, Section 3(5) of the Constitution;
2. Clarify the timeline and sequence of earlier complaints; and
3. Assert that impeachment — like electoral protest cases — may rightfully cross over from one Congress to another, as supported by both Philippine precedent in the electoral tribunals and U.S. and British practice and jurisprudence.
But instead of action, they chose abdication. The legal giants are gone — and in their place, small minds now dominate with alacrity, dragging the Senate’s reputation down and turning it into a global laughingstock.
This is not how justice is done — it’s how truth is buried.
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