By Ade S. Fajardo Detainees are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a public trial. But they might as well be guilty. Our detention system is among the most rotten in the world. Jail visitation is difficult for family and lawyers. Even if you don’t get inside the cells, the decay and overcrowding of facilities is …
Come To Think Of It
Quiboloy’s money
By Ade S. Fajardo Controversial Pastor Apollo Quiboloy faces the following tribulations: A warrant of arrest recently unsealed by a California court, a contempt citation from the Senate that might lead to another warrant, an indictment for rape and human trafficking from the Department of Justice, and quite possibly another warrant for contempt from the House …
Cheap speech in social media
By Ade Fajardo In an en banc decision made public last week, the Supreme Court held former Undersecretary Lorraine Badoy guilty of contempt of court for red-tagging a Manila trial court judge. The judge rendered a decision in September 2022 denying a petition filed by the Department of Justice seeking a declaration that the Communist Party of …
Will Marcos stop ICC arrest warrants with a written order?
By Ade S. Fajardo Harry Roque wants President Bongbong Marcos to issue a written order that says that warrants of arrest, if ever issued by the International Criminal Court, will not be enforced or otherwise ignored by the Philippine National Police. Is this a viable option? Will the President be violating any law should he …
Gripes vs. the Senate
By Ade S. Fajardo The Constitution may be amended through a proposal made directly by the people in accordance with Article 17, Section 2. If the proponents of charter change want to change only one provision by clarifying that the deciding vote in a constituent assembly is three-fourths of all the members of Congress “voting …
Unlikely defender of the Cory Constitution
By Ade Fajardo Rodrigo Duterte backed changes to the 1987 Constitution even before he became President. In 2015, he toured the country talking to people about his desire to shift to a federal system of government — part of a campaign strategy built on the promise of a new Philippines, and anchored on Davao’s vaunted success …
Will Quiboloy snub the Senate?
By Ade Fajardo Absent an act of God, the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (the Name Above Every Name) will be spotlighted today when the Senate Committee on Women and Children conducts its inquiry into the cases of its leader Apollo Quiboloy. The Senate will hear PSR No. 884 filed by Senator Risa Hontiveros, which greenlights a …
Internet justice
By Ade S. Fajardo Sometimes it is a case of the police shooting themselves in the foot. Instead of sending the message that they are doing their jobs, the Quezon City Police District had to defend themselves from insinuations that they were blocking efforts from a cyclist to file charges against a former policeman identified as …