The Supreme Court betrayed the people

Is our beloved Supreme Court afraid of plunderers being made to account in full view of the public and tried by our Impeachment Court? I ask this question because of the impact of the Supreme Court's July 25, 2025 decision in two cases, GR 278353, Sara Z. Duterte vs. House of Representatives (HOR), and GR 278359, lawyers of Sara vs. HOR.

- TONY LOPEZ

Both cases want to stop the impeachment and the trial of the Vice President for plotting to kill President Marcos, the First Lady and the House Speaker; plundering at least P615 million of taxpayers' money; unexplained wealth (she had hidden wealth of P2 billion); bribery, graft and corruption and the sum of her acts making her unfit to remain vice president and hold public office in the future. The charges are contained in the seven Articles of Impeachment in an impeachment complaint filed by the HOR before the Senate on Feb. 5, 2025.

What did the SC do? It declared the impeachment complaint unconstitutional, on two grounds - grave abuse of discretion (GAD) amounting to lack of jurisdiction and Sara was not given due process by the HOR.

How did the HOR commit abuse? It initiated four impeachment complaints. The Constitution limits impeachment complaints against the same official to only one in one year. The SC subjected our beloved congressmen to a time and motion study, a crucial study in bureaucratic small-mindedness.

Why no due process was given Sara? The HOR didn't bother to read to Sara the complaint, did not bother to present her with the evidence and did not bother to hear her side. In the first place, those things are not the responsibility of the HOR. Those steps are to be done during the impeachment trial before the Senate. Now if the HOR was to take those steps, the HOR would in effect be an impeachment court by itself - the prosecutor, judge and executioner. Ridiculous.