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Manuel L. Quezon III » Monday’s Caucus: Like the Second Envelope?
Tomorrow, this issue will be at the forefront — see Prosecution finds Corona’s ‘$700,000 bank account’: In a supplemental request submitted to the Senate impeachment court on Friday, February 3, the prosecution attached photocopies of the supposed PSBank documents on the accounts of “Renato Coronado Corona.” The $700,000 deposited in account number 08919100037-3 is supposedly [...] [Link]
Manuel L. Quezon III » The question of the public pulse
Style over substance. The best defense, as they say, is a good offense. And so, the other day, by way of former Senator Francisco “Kit” Tatad came something remarkable. Referring to public opinion, he opined, On the whole, nagbabago. Nakikita na mukhang ang perception ng bayan yung sympathy sa prosecution mukhang nalilipat kay Corona. In [...] [Link]
Manuel L. Quezon III » The burden of proof shifts to the Defense*
Charles Laughton in the film, “Witness for the Prosecution.” *Figuratively speaking: as @Katarungan2010 pointed out on Twitter, [T]he burden of proof always rests on the prosec. Otherwise, it violates the Consti. What shifts is burden of evidence. And prima facie evidence isn’t automatic. Prosec must first show that the elements required by the applicable law [...] [Link]
Manuel L. Quezon III » Some Readings as the Constitution turns 25
…[T]he Constitution is not, and should not be, an idol under strict taboos. It is not, and should not be, a strait-jacket for the growing and developing nation which it was made to serve. The Constitution itself outlines the procedure for its own amendment, and it thus expressly devoted to the principle that it is neither inviolable nor permanent, but … [Link]
Manuel L. Quezon III » The fate of Article II: “A threshold issue”
“None So Blind As Those Who Won’t See,” editorial cartoon, The Judge, November 19, 1881 Yesterday, the much-awaited first appearance of Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago in the impeachment proceedings finally occurred. First, she weighed in with her thoughts on the nature of impeachment: THE PRESIDING OFFICER. The Lady Senator from Iloilo. SEN. DEFENSOR SANTIAGO. Thank [...] [Link]
Manuel L. Quezon III » The Second Article: Fishing Expedition or Systematic Investigation?
Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. Now that evidence on Article II in Chief Justice Corona’s impeachment trial is being presented, the defense wants it dismissed out of hand… This is the Second of the Articles of Impeachment against Chief Justice Renato C. Corona: II. RESPONDENT COMMITTED CULPABLE VIOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND/OR BETRAYED THE PUBLIC [...] [Link]
Manuel L. Quezon III » The Nature of the Beast: Sui Generis
You don’t need Sherlock for this one. sui generisadjectiveunique: the sui generis nature of animals.ORIGIN Latin, literally ‘of its own kind.’ The 1987 Constitution, in Article XI, Accountabilty of Public Officers, includes the following: SECTION 2. The President, the Vice-President, the Members of the Supreme Court, the Members of the Constitutional Commissions, and the Ombudsman [...] [Link]
Manuel L. Quezon III » He said, She said, and Gravitas
The old Senate session hall, now being restored, as photographed by Roy de Guzman. Among its features is a frieze with sculptures of the great lawmakers and lawgivers of history: North Wall Hammurabi, Moses, Ramesses the Great, Li Si, Augustus Caesar, Sir William Blackstone; South Wall Solon (Athenian Statesman), Averroes, Justinian, Manu, Charlemagne, Hugo Grotius, [...] [Link]
Manuel L. Quezon III » Term of the Day: Duplicate Original
“A View of the Tryal of Warren Hastings Esqr. before the court of peers in Westminster Hall on an impeachment delivered at the bar of the House of Lords by the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament Assembled,” February 13,1788 The Corona impeachment trial continues. The quotable quotes of the Senate President continue: today’s was [...] [Link]
Manuel L. Quezon III » The Senate and the People of the Philippines
Cicero denounces Cataline, by Cesare Maccari The Corona impeachment trial continues. If impeachment as a process harks back to the House of Lords, the British Parliament, by way of the Congress of the United States, then yesterday’s opening of the impeachment trial was, itself, suffused with the history, and traditions, of legislatures of the past: [...] [Link]
Manuel L. Quezon III » “A method of National Inquest into the conduct of public men”
The death of Lord Chatham, by John Singleton Copley So the Corona impeachment trial begins. The ceremonial parliamentary robes of members of the House of Lords –which served, until 2009, when the U.K. finally established a Supreme Court, as a court in certain, very specific, cases– are crimson red. As are the robes of High [...] [Link]
Manuel L. Quezon III » "The Convention thought the Senate the most fit depository of this important trust. Where else than…"
“The Convention thought the Senate the most fit depository of this important trust. Where else than in the Senate could have been found a tribunal sufficiently dignified, or sufficiently independent? What other body would be likely to feel confidence… [Link]
Manuel L. Quezon III » "This brings me to one last point. It is not merely that reporting is usefulin gathering the petits…"
“This brings me to one last point. It is not merely that reporting is useful in gathering the petits faits vrais that create verisimilitude and make a novel gripping or absorbing, although that side of the enterprise is worth paying attention to. My … Continue reading → [Link]
Manuel L. Quezon III » vintageanchor: Letter: Vladimir Nabokov Defines…
vintageanchor: Letter: Vladimir Nabokov Defines Pornography… “In 1964, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously wrote that, while he couldn’t definitively state what makes a work “pornography,” “I know it when I see it.” Had Stewart… Continue reading → [Link]
Manuel L. Quezon III » mediumaevum: In the Middle Ages women and men often doted on …
mediumaevum: In the Middle Ages women and men often doted on their pets. In York Minster, there is a portrait of the lap dog of Lady Margaret Roos, rendered in stained glass. The dog looks happy and sleek, with a belled collar. In the picture he… Continue reading → [Link]
Manuel L. Quezon III » themodernhistory: British Library newspaper archive puts 300…
themodernhistory: British Library newspaper archive puts 300 years of history online – Telegraph Sixty-five million historic newspaper articles, covering the most significant events over the last 300 years, are now fully available online from today… Continue reading → [Link]
Manuel L. Quezon III » "QUESTIONS ABOUT THE reliability of Kapu?ci?ski’s reportage begin with The Emperor. His informants…"
“QUESTIONS ABOUT THE reliability of Kapu?ci?ski’s reportage begin with The Emperor. His informants here are mainly former Ethiopian court servants labouring under anonymising initials, making them sound curiously like characters in an eighteenth-… Continue reading → [Link]
Manuel L. Quezon III » "INTERVIEWERHow did you start writing?GARCÍA MÁRQUEZBy drawing. By drawing cartoons. Before I…"
“INTERVIEWER How did you start writing? GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ By drawing. By drawing cartoons. Before I could read or write I used to draw comics at school and at home. The funny thing is that I now realize that when I was in high school I had the repu… Continue reading → [Link]
Manuel L. Quezon III » SS Normandie, renamed USS Lafayette, lies capsized in the…
SS Normandie, renamed USS Lafayette, lies capsized in the frozen mud of her New York Pier the winter of 1942. Continue reading → [Link]
Manuel L. Quezon III » onstanleyon: the wreck of the RMS Queen Elizabeth in Hong Kong…
onstanleyon: the wreck of the RMS Queen Elizabeth in Hong Kong harbor, 1972 Continue reading → [Link]