In the Public Square: Lessons from the Corona impeachment
What are the lessons we can draw from the impeachment, trial, and conviction of CJ Corona?
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Corona precedent: Can the Constitution block Sara Duterte summons?
Months before then-chief justice Renato Corona voluntarily testified in his own trial in 2012, the impeachment court junked the prosecution’s request to compel him to take the witness stand
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[Puso at Diwa] Foreign currency deposit secrecy: Time for a constitutional rethink
The uncertainty surrounding the interaction between constitutional impeachment powers and statutory bank secrecy is itself a weakness in the country’s accountability framework
