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The Supreme Court affirms its ruling that barred the impeachment proceedings against Vice President Sara Duterte last year. The SC says the complaints against the Vice President were blocked by the one-year bar rule on impeachment.

Full story: https://www.rappler.com/philippines/supreme-court-decision-affirms-appeal-sara-duterte-impeachment-unconstitutional/
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00:00The Supreme Court affirms its ruling that barred the impeachment proceedings against Vice President
00:05Sara Duterte last year by a unanimous vote of all those participating
00:10The Supreme Court en banc denied with finality the motion for reconciling
00:15consideration filed by the House of Representatives which sought to reverse the court's July
00:2025-2025 decision that declared the articles of impeachment against
00:25Vice President Sara Duterte unconstitutional
00:30The complaints against the Vice President were blocked by the one-year bar rule on impeachment
00:34This rule
00:35Found in the 1987 Constitution states that impeachment proceedings cannot be initiated against
00:40the same official more than once within a period of one year
00:43In total, Duterte faced four
00:45impeachment complaints before the House of Representatives
00:48The first three did not materialize
00:50When Duterte was impeached on the 4th, pushed by a resolution signed by more than two-thirds
00:54of all House members
00:55The High Court's decision in 2025 said that the inaction of the first three complaints
01:00has already triggered the one-year bar rule
01:05when the house Townske
01:21Well, but it's probably not yet
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