00:00Ipinaliwanag na ng nagpalagay ng salitang Ford With sa konstitusyon kung anong ibig sabihin ito kaugnay ng impeachment.
00:07Iginit niya rin labag sa saligang batas kung idismiss ang impeachment complaint at kung anong pwedeng gawin para maitulito ng susunod na kongreso.
00:16Nakatutok si Joseph Moro.
00:21Sa tatlong impeachment complaint na nakatuntong sa Senado sa ating kasaysayan,
00:25ngayon lamang susubukan ng ilang Senador na ipadismiss ang kaso kahit walang paglilitis sa pamamagitan ng isang resolusyon na pagbobotohan ng mga Senador.
00:36Unchartered waters tayo dito.
00:38Ngunit kung titignan natin yung saligang batas natin sa lente ng pananagutan,
00:45parang hindi nakaakma yung proposal na magdismiss lang bigla ng impeachment case
00:50na hindi ma lang tayo nabibigyan ng pagkakataon, makita yung ebidensya.
00:55Ayon kay retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Adolf Ascuna, lumalabag daw sa konstitusyon ang resolusyon.
01:03It's very clear under the constitution that the Senate has the power and the duty to try and decide impeachment cases.
01:13So they cannot abdicate that duty.
01:17Sa Article 11, Section 4 ng Saligang Batas na Kasaad na trial by the Senate shall proceed forthwith.
01:24Ito ang pinagde-debatihan ngayon.
01:27At ang sinabi ng isang panig, ang ibig sabihin ng forthwith ay agad-agad simula ng paglilitis.
01:33Ang salitang forthwith, ipinalagay ni Ascuna bilang miyembro ng Constitutional Commission na bumabalang kas sa 1987 Constitution.
01:42It can mean immediate. It can also mean without unreasonable delay.
01:49Forthwith, in the necessarily right away, there can be some delay as long as it's reasonable.
01:57Nung binabalangkas ang konstitusyon, isinaalang-alang daw nila ang ibang trabaho ng Kongreso tulad ng paggawa ng batas.
02:04Forthwith is a flexible term. There are matters of legislation that are also very important, and the confirmation of appointments have to be done.
02:16So the Senate president cannot be totally blamed for seeing that these matters have to be attended to by the Senate before the 19th Congress bows out.
02:28Because otherwise, this will lapse. These are matters that will lapse. Whereas the impeachment does not lapse.
02:37Ayon kay Justice Ascuna, ang pwedeng gawin ng Senado ay simulan ng impeachment process at hayaan ang Senado ng 20th Congress na litisin at desisyonan ito.
02:47Pwedeng gawin niya ng 19th Congress hanggang June 30.
02:50Because it is not a legislative matter. The adjournment is for purposes of legislative matter.
02:56What is adjourned is the legislative calendar. The 19th Congress still exists.
03:05There have been Supreme Court decisions saying that after adjournment in a day, it can continue.
03:11Pero kung halimbawa na mapigil niya ng resolusyon ng impeachment sa 19th Congress, maaari pa rin itong buhayin sa 20th Congress,
03:20pero ang mga senador lamang na bumoto pabor sa resolusyon ang maaaring gumawa nito.
03:25Ito raw ay batay sa parliamentary procedure kung saan ang isang bumoto para sa nanalong resolusyon lamang
03:32ang maaaring humingi muli ng botohan sakaling nagbago ang isip nito.
03:37It can happen only if one of those who voted with the majority to dismiss the articles will be the one to ask for a reconsideration.
03:48For someone who is against its dismissal to vote for a dismissal so that he or she as a surviving member of the Senate can ask for reconsideration in the 20th Congress.
04:03Pero kung baharang pa rin ang impeachment complaint sa 20th Congress, maaaring mauwi ito sa isang constitutional crisis.
04:11The only one that can remediate that crisis would be the Supreme Court because one branch of government, Congress, represented by the Senate, refuses to fulfill its constitutional duty,
04:31which is part of the checks and balance because this is a check on the executive impeachment of the vice president.
04:39Si UP College of Law Assistant Professor Paulo Tamase naman ang sabi, walang lusot sa responsibilidad na yan ang Senado.
04:46Tungkulin ng Senado ngayon na simulan yung impeachment complaint.
04:51At gaya ng instrumento ng pananagutan ng impeachment, kailangan din managot ng Senado sa taong bayan.
04:59Para sa GMA Integrated News, Joseph Morong, nakatutok 24 oras.
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