If former Sen. Leila de Lima is not granted bail, she remains incarcerated for another nine months, the period within which Supreme Court judicial administrator Raul Villanueva ordered the Muntinlupa RTC trying the last case against De Lima to render judgment.
There are four overriding factors which should have fully warranted the grant of bail to former Sen. Leila de Lima in the third and last case against her.
Although I am against the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) for not being seasonable as major negative economic indicators currently pummel the economy, congressional wisdom and expediency are not justiciable issues before the Supreme Court.
Fr. Winston Cabading, who upheld the Vatican nullification of the 1948 “Marian Apparition” in Lipa, Batangas, must not suffer the miserable fate of Carlos Celdran who was prosecuted and convicted, albeit without finality, of the archaic offense of “offending religious feelings” under Sec. 133 of the Revised Penal Code.
I am certain Speaker Martin Romualdez has the incriminatory details and evidence regarding the plot to oust him.
However, Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo denied the accusation and said that her political objectives do not include becoming Speaker again. In other words, she no longer covets the Speakership.
