I cast an abstention on House Bill No. 9411, and the following is my explanation:
It is perplexing and embarrassing that while the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic is overwhelmingly disastrous to the Filipinos’ health and the country’s economy, the Duterte administration’s response is by inadequate phases and insufficient installments.
(Position of Rep. Edcel C. Lagman, member of the Committee on Justice, on 27 May 2021)
Distinguished Chairman Vicente “Ching” Veloso and Members of the Committee on Justice:
I respectfully submit that the impeachment complaint against Supreme Court Associate Justice Mario Victor F. Leonen is insufficient both in form and in substance pursuant to the Rules of Procedure in Impeachment Proceedings of the House of Representatives.
(Video recorded speech of REP. EDCEL C. LAGMAN during the Bicol University Extension Management Division Zoom Teleconference on “Legislative Leadership Legacy for Peace and Development” on 20 March 2021)
Ika-6 ng Pebrero 2021
(Bahay ng Alumni, UP Diliman)
Magandang hapon sa inyong lahat.
Mahirap tanggapin noon na wala na si Popoy. Ngayon, pagkaraan ng dalawang dekada, buhay na buhay ang mga adhikain at prinsipyong kanyang ipinaglaban; at ang mga hamong hinarap niya noon ay siya pa ring hinaharap natin ngayon.
(Oral Argument prepared by Rep. Edcel C. Lagman in the Petitions against the Anti-Terrorism Act before the Supreme Court on 02 February 2021)
Your Honors, Section 29 of the Anti-Terrorism Act on a maximum of 24 days detention of alleged “suspected terrorists”, without judicial warrant of arrest, odiously defies more than a centuryof libertarian tradition enjoyed by Filipinos against unreasonable seizures of their persons dating back to the Malolos Constitution of 1899, the Bill of 1902, the Jones Law of 1916 and the Constitutions of 1935, 1973 and 1987.
