It’s dead! The majority of the House Justice committee killed it mercilessly. Another year of immunity for the president and hope it will be her last. It was sufficient in form and not in substance. Was it a failed process? I honestly think that it is not a failed process. In fact the process was followed. Was it a process conducted with fairness and integrity? I am afraid that its not.
It is a well-settled jurisprudence that there is no issue anymore on the matter of “initiation” and “filing.” What happened in the House Justice committee was a show of the Palace’s muscle in a body that was supposedly to be independent. The claimed “pay-off” which took place in a hotel was beside the point. The determination of the complaint’s sufficiency in substance should have passed the House Justice committee. What the Vice-Chairman so gallantly defended was a defense which should have been done if and when the President gets her day in court.
Since 2004 and up to now, these Impeachment series is a masterpiece. It was beautifully crafted. It was a show of statesmanship of our elected representatives. Truly, when money is involved everything changes. But if the price of their integrity is 500,000php, then every person who will have the same attribute would be for sale. House for SALE! I would want to buy a legislation for me, please.
