Senate says trial to start in 20th Congress The Senate sitting as an impeachment court remanded the impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara
VP SARA’S JUDGES. Senate President Chiz Escudero administers the oath to his fellow senators yesterday as judges of the Impeachment Court that will try Vice President Sara Duterte. Inset shows pro-impeach Sara rallyists continuing their vigil outside the Senate complex despite the rain.
“I cannot in conscience, as a lawyer and as a senator-judge, just make that rush decision that it violated the one-year ban,” Cayetano said. Duterte filed in February a petition for certiorari and prohibition with urgent application of temporary restraining order and/or writ of preliminary injunction before the Supreme Court.
“We don’t have enough time now. It’s not our fault. The House chose to file it in the last days — the last hour of our last day in session — when they knew we only had two weeks left,” he said. Two senators-elect — Bam Aquino and Panfilo Lacson — pledged to uphold the rule of law once they assume the responsibility as senator-judges in the 20th Congress.
In hindsight, he said the Senate “could have spent its time better on the legislative agenda instead of debating on petty matters, if ego was set aside and the impeachment court was allowed to convene immediately.” “That’s absolutely wrong. You’re a legislative body, yet you want to dismiss your duty as a court? We’ve been given a mandate: To conduct a trial. We can’t just wash our hands of it and dismiss the case simply because it’s easier,” he said.
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