Credit to Author: cbibe| Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 00:24:15 +0000
American evangelicals have high hopes that the US Supreme Court, with its newfound conservative majority, will be tempted to chip away at its historic decision to legalize abortion.
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Credit to Author: Marie Solis| Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 18:53:21 +0000
What the extreme legislation means for abortion rights in the state—and for Roe v. Wade.
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Credit to Author: Marie Solis| Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 16:58:02 +0000
“Trigger laws” used to be rare—but in the last few months alone, they’ve almost doubled in number.
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 06:05:59 +0000
THE Supreme Court (SC) stopped the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from disqualifying several provincial candidates in who used the “old format” in filing their Certificates of Candidacy (CoC). It issued…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 21:36:06 +0000
The boxing-champ-turned-senator has apparently quickly learned that one key way of thriving in traditional Philippine politics is to create alliances.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 21:20:03 +0000
Makabayan lawmakers have contested the constitutionality of a second loan agreement between the Duterte administration and China.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 10:47:04 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – The Makabayan bloc on Thursday asked the Supreme Court (SC) to strike down the Preferential Buyer’s Credit Loan Agreement with China for the construction of the P18.7 billion New Centennial Water Source-Kaliwa Dam Project.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 21:05:25 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — Actor Eduardo “Edu” Manzano, who is vying for San Juan City’s lone congressional seat, said on Tuesday he would appeal the cancellation of his certificate of candidacy (CoC) by the Commission on Elections.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 10:13:58 +0000
The Supreme Court has dismissed the petition of San Juan Mayor Guia Gomez questioning the approval by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for the conduct of a recall election in San Juan.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ryanl| Date: Sat, 04 May 2019 21:15:41 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte and other government officials must enforce the Supreme Court’s writ of kalikasan order directing them to protect and rehabilitate the marine environment in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), former Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said on Saturday.
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