Panelo: Anyone can go to Supreme Court and question national budget

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 06:28:00 +0000

MANILA, Philippines – Anyone is free to question before the Supreme Court the  2019 national budget if they feel that it violated the high tribunal’s earlier ruling invalidating the pork barrel system, Malacañang said Monday.

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Fight vs pork: Lacson, Drilon see test for Duterte, SC

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 21:30:04 +0000

Congress ratified the spending bill on Friday, and the next step is for the President to sign it into law.

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Lawmakers keep P75-B pork in final spending bill

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 21:30:50 +0000

They are keeping P75 billion in pork in the final version of the P3.8-trillion national budget proposal for 2019 despite Lacson’s strident objections

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Mangudadatu asks SC to dismiss petitions vs BOL

Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:39:23 +0000

Maguindanao Governor Esmael Mangudadatu has asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the petitions questioning the constitutionality of the BOL.

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SC sets oral arguments on centralized law school entrance exam

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 10:51:05 +0000

MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court has set for debates the petitions questioning the legality of Legal Education Board’s (LEB) policy that centralizes entrance examination in law schools.

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SC urged to decide on Manggagawa Partylist disqualification case

Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 09:29:15 +0000

Manggagawa Partylist urged the Supreme Court on Monday to immediately decide on their petition to be allowed to participate in the May polls.

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Budget rift may reach Supreme Court

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2019 23:22:49 +0000

Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Sunday said he might refer the budget deadlock to the Supreme Court after Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s allies accused him of turning a blind eye to other senators’ alleged “pork” in the stalled P3.8-trillion proposed spending bill for 2019.

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Maguindanao to seek dismissal of SC petitions vs Bangsamoro law

Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 05:23:21 +0000

Maguindanao to seek dismissal of SC petitions vs Bangsamoro law

Maguindanao Gov. Esmael Mangudadatu is set to file a motion to dismiss the petitions before the Supreme Court questioning the constitutionality of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), which his constituents resoundingly favored during the plebiscite on January 21.

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‘War isn’t over,’ says SolGen on 3rd extension of martial law in Mindanao

Credit to Author: JOMAR CANLAS, TMT| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:39:08 +0000

THE war isn’t over in Mindanao as the “specter of terrorism and rebellion continue to cast dark shadows on the country and we must steel ourselves for a long struggle…READ

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SC questions data used to plead for 3rd martial law extension

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 12:19:36 +0000

Justices of the Supreme Court questioned on Tuesday the data presented by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to justify a third martial law extension in Mindanao.

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