[Rear View] My problem with Koko Pimentel’s legal ‘acumen’

It serves to bolster the power circle

This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article., chair of the Senate Blue Ribbon sub-committee investigating the previous administration’s bloody drug war, is feigning helplessness in dealing with former president Rodrigo Duterte ’s use of vulgar language during his

To deal with similar behavior in the future, and to placate the scandalized Senator Risa Hontiveros who floated the contempt option, Pimentel said they would need to amend the rules of the sub-committee to give it the same contempt power reserved for the mother committee. But that is after the fact. The deed has been done and the unruly guest may no longer be invited.

This is not the first time Pimentel has resorted to his occasional legal acumen to justify an intolerable act, occasional in the sense that it does not stand on unshakable principles but varies depending on the occasion. for breaking his home quarantine when he accompanied his pregnant wife to the hospital. The MMC called his actions “reckless and unacceptable.”by saying his visit to the hospital should be considered “essential” movement, therefore allowed under the guidelines set by government.

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