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RP suffers in ASEAN 2026 comparative rankings

by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - November 10, 2026 - 12:00am

As our country prepares for the coming Summit, we need to take a quick look at the global competitive index of the 11 ASEAN member-nations. How do we rate as against the global indices as well as among ourselve...

Why and how the Blues trumped the Reds?

by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - November 6, 2026 - 12:00am

President Donald Trump flunked in the mid-term, and really fell flat on his face.

The search for the 28th chief justice

by Atty Josephus B. Jimenez - November 4, 2026 - 12:38am

In the Philippine hierarchy of official ranks, the president is the highest official of the land, followed by the vice president, the Senate president, the speaker of the House, then the Supreme Court chief justice...

The "recycling" of Vince Dizon and Francis Tolentino

by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - November 3, 2026 - 12:00am

The return of Secretary Vince Dizon to the Department of Transportation after his failures to implement draconian promises he made for the Department of Public Works and Highways is the best evidence that the BBM...

The High Court teaches us on budgeting

by Atty. Josephus Jimenez - October 29, 2026 - 12:00am

Mr. Justice Maario Victor F. Leonen, senior associate justice and leading candidate to replace Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo, wrote the landmark en banc decision declaring certain provisions of the 2024, 2025...

The Supreme Court's power of judicial review

by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - October 28, 2026 - 12:00am

Whenever the highest court of the land calls out the executive or the legislative departments for grave abuses of discretion or going overboard in the scope of their respective authority, the Supreme Court doesn’t...

Why the SC declared the budgets unconstitutional

by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - October 27, 2026 - 12:00am

The expanded scope of the Supreme Court's power of judicial review under the 1987 Constitution is anchored on the fundamental principle of checks and balances, as a corollary to separation of powers among the...

Post-impeachment political scenarios

by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - October 23, 2026 - 12:00am

The jury is still out. The defense has not yet presented its witnesses, much less offered its evidence, if any.

ASEAN, US, China and geopolitics

by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - October 21, 2026 - 12:00am

The seemingly-endless rivalry between the U.S. and China in the Asia-Pacific Region has placed the 11 member-nations of ASEAN in the vortex of a volatile geopolitics that necessarily impinges on the lives, security,...

The ASEAN Summit and Trump's visit

by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - October 20, 2026 - 12:00am

The BBM administration is poised to claim two major diplomatic scores come November 16 to 18, with the holding of the 49th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit and other related summits in Manila, and the...

The Calderons should give way to Gungun Gicae

by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - October 16, 2026 - 12:00am

The younger generations, the students and the youth in general, the civil society, and the silent majority that control two thirds of the voting populace in Cebu’s 7th District, are sick and tired of traditional...

Implications of dropping 3 Articles of Impeachment

by Atty. Josephus B Jimenez - October 15, 2026 - 12:00am

Neither the defense nor the impeachment Court can prevent the prosecution from exercising its inherent prerogative to withdraw three out of the four articles of impeachment. It takes only one article to obtain...

Time to audit your congressman's performance

by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - October 14, 2026 - 12:00am

On May 8, 2028, we shall elect not only the next president, vice president and 12 senators, but also our district and sectoral representatives to the House of Representatives. We should not forget that congressmen...

Too much technicalities in the impeachment proceedings

by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - October 13, 2026 - 12:00am

The way the presiding officer is currently managing the proceedings has convinced a lot of legal experts that procedural inanities are obstructing, impeding, and delaying the constitutional process which should not...

Alleged procurement from a sibling's company

by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - October 9, 2026 - 12:00am

The whole nation was listening to the testimony of Mayor Sebastian Duterte before the Senate Impeachment Court last September 29. The prosecutor was Atty. Teodor Ty, a Law professor and experienced trial lawyer and...

The absolute pardon for Mary Jane Veloso

by Atty. Josephus B Jimenez - October 8, 2026 - 12:00am

Was it legal, proper and reasonable for President BBM to pardon Mary Jane Veloso for a crime connected to illegal drugs committed in a foreign country, whereby she was arrested, prosecuted and convicted by a foreign...

Leni-Pacman vs. Sara-Robin

by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - October 7, 2026 - 12:00am

What Lito Banayo tried to float around, a possible Leni Robredo-Manny Pacquiao tandem in 2028,

Another BBM faux pas: Postponing the BSK election

by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - October 6, 2026 - 12:00am

One of the most serious mistakes of the BBM administration is the unreasonable postponement of the BSKE elections.

Unexplained wealth as an impeachment issue

by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - October 2, 2026 - 12:00am

The biggest headache that confronts the vice president's defense team is the challenge of reconciling the contents of three sets of documents: the SALNs she submitted to the Ombudsman, her Income Tax Returns...

May the SC overrule the Impeachment Court?

by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - September 29, 2026 - 12:00am

The statement of the lead defense counsel, Atty. Hiela Sison, that henceforth, the participation of the respondent in the impeachment proceedings shall be with "ex-abundanti cautelam" or with much, much...

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