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No settlement is honorable, Davide told.
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
SAYING it would be dishonorable for the Supreme Court to submit to any "honorable settlement" with the House of Representatives over the impeachment of Chief Justice Hilario Davide, the Public Interest Law Center urged Davide to submit himself to an impeachment trial.
"What is worse than an embattled Chief Justice is a Supreme Court that wheels and deals with congressmen to stop the transmission of the articles of impeachment to the Senate at all cost," said the PILC in a statement.
The group, which acts as pro-bono counsels for rights victims and in plunder cases, said what would be worse than an impeachment threat is for justices themselves to be "intimidated to barter and trade with satraps and plunderers in Congress to avoid an impeachment trial."
"What is so wrong with going to trial? If the Supreme Court believes in our democratic institutions, then the justices should be the first ones to welcome going to trial, so they could teach us lawyers how it is done," the PILC said.
A group of House legislators has called for the creation of a five-member "truth commission," composed of representatives from the three branches of government and two constitutional bodies, to look into alleged irregularities in the use of the Judiciary Development Fund.
The group said ...
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