The Editor

After 34 days of trial spanning nearly three months, the Senate impeachment court recessed last March 22, even though the

Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada wryly remarked that he almost fell asleep listening to the defense’s first witness, Rep.

Ban deposits are sacred. Under Republic Act No. 1405, “All deposits of whatever nature … are … absolutely confidential and

One question that keeps popping up during the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona is the degree of proof

Article II of the impeachment complaint charges Chief Justice Renato Corona with failure to include “some of [his] properties” in

The Constitution grants the Senate “the sole power to try and decide all cases of impeachment.” Despite this solemn mandate,

When it became clear that he had lost his people’s trust, US President Richard Nixon voluntarily resigned from the most

Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile asked the prosecution and the defense to speed up the on-going impeachment trial of Chief

Contrasting are the strategies of the opposing counsels in the Corona impeachment trial. Banking on the live TV-radio coverage, the

The Senate, acting as an impeachment court, denied the motion of Chief Justice Renato C. Corona’s lawyers for a preliminary