Columns

The Supreme Court knows only too well that our people are carefully watching how the Maguindanao massacre trial is handled.

“The state shall guarantee equal access to opportunities for public service, and prohibit political dynasties as may be defined by

As expected, the Supreme Court resolution (dated Oct. 23, 2012, but known publicly only last week) “disallowing the live media

The controversy over the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (Republic Act 10175) digs deep into one of the most revered

How are party-list winners determined? The Supreme Court answered this question in its very first decision on the party-list system,

Every election season, the party-list system always becomes a vortex of controversies. And yet, all the time, the controversies revolve

The Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro forged between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is a

Judicial decision-making, I wrote last Sunday, may be reduced in its simplest terms to an Aristotelian syllogism. Most of the

In its most simplified sense, judicial decision-making can be reduced to an Aristotelian syllogism consisting of a major premise, a

I understand why the senior justices of the Supreme Court are disappointed, even dismayed, by the choice of a junior