Experts say the Senate remanding the impeachment case of Sara Duterte to the House of Representatives is unconstitutional.
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00:00Experts say the Senate remanding the impeachment case of Sara Duterte to the House of Representatives is unconstitutional.
00:08Constitutional law expert and University of the Philippines College of Law professor Dante Gatmaitan says the remanding of the case had no legal basis.
00:16He adds, it is only the Supreme Court that can determine the constitutionality of the acts of the House of Representatives.
00:22UP Law faculty member and constitutional law professor Paulo Tamase meantime says the Senate's role in the impeachment trial proceedings was to try and decide, and remanding violates constitutional structure.
00:34He says the upper chamber was not supposed to supervise or order the House on what to do in the impeachment case.
00:40The House and Senate are constitutionally equal, even if they have different roles in impeachment.