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(Eagle News)–Solicitor General Jose Calida on Thursday, Sept. 27, threatened to file charges against Senator Antonio Trillanes after the senator accused him of stealing his amnesty application document. In a statement, Calida said he would be “constrained to file a criminal case for libel plus damages” against the senator unless he “expresses his sincere apology for calling me a thief.” “Obviously, Mr. Trillanes’ rationality (assuming he had one) has deserted him,” Calida said, calling the […]
(Eagle News)–Senator Chiz Escudero urged the Supreme Court to act on Senator Antonio Trillanes’ petition challenging Proclamation No. 572 and seeking to put a stop to its implementation. “O kung matatagalan pa ang kanilang pagpapasya, sana ikonsidera nila ang pag-isyu muna ng TRO (temporary restraining order). The right of a person to liberty cannot be made to depend on the Court’s absence or lack of action on an issue,” Escudero said. Earlier, the SC, without […]
(Eagle News)—Solicitor General Jose Calida on Tuesday, Sept. 25, welcomed the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150’s upholding of Proclamation No. 572 that declared the amnesty granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV as void ab initio, and the court’s subsequent issuance of a .warrant of arrest and hold departure order against the senator. Calida reportedly had a hand in the review of the amnesty granted to Trillanes by the government of then-President Benigno Aquino III. […]
(Eagle News) — Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150 Judge Elmo Alameda believes Proclamation No. 572 that declared the amnesty granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV void ab initio is “sufficient and legal.” In his 22-page resolution that granted the Department of Justice’s motion for the issuance of an alias warrant and a hold departure order against Trillanes, Alameda said the certification issued by the military that said there was no available copy of the […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Tuesday, Sept. 25, posted bail for the rebellion case filed against him. Trillanes proceeded to the Makati Regional Trial Court to post the P200,000 bail set by Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150 Judge Elmo Alameda for his temporary liberty, after he underwent booking procedures at the Makati Police. Live footage on national television showed Trillanes accompanied by opposition senators Bam Aquino, Kiko Pangilinan and Risa Hontiveros, […]
By Vic Somintac Eagle News Service “Let us stop the drama by presscon and allow the legal process to take its course.” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque had this to say after the Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150 ordered Senator Antonio Trillanes IV arrested and for a hold departure order to be issued against him. According to Roque, the court after all “has spoken.” “As the President has said, we will respect the decision of […]
By Moira Encina Eagle News Service The Office of the Solicitor General has asked two branches of the Makati Regional Trial Court to dismiss Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s petition challenging Proclamation No. 572, and issue a warrant against him. According to the comment filed by the OSG before branches 150 and 148, where Trillanes had been charged with coup d’etat and rebellion charges for the Oakwood mutiny and Peninsula Manila siege in 2003 and 2007, […]
(Eagle News)–“Stop acting like an anxious puppy.” Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo had this to say to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, who he said “keeps on engaging the media by claiming that he must continue seeking the protection of the Senate since the President has personally ordered for his arrest.” “If he truly believes that there is no basis for his arrest and that he is practically doing service to the Filipino people by continuously […]
(Eagle News) — The materials presented by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV to the court as supposed proof he complied with the requirements for an amnesty are only “self-serving” and “deserve scant consideration,” the Department of Justice said. In a reply-affidavit filed before the Makati Regional Trial Court’s Branch 150, the DOJ said in the first place, the application form the senator was holding up in a picture published by a newspaper on Jan. 5, 2011 “did […]
(Eagle News) — Ousted Supreme Court chief justice Maria Lourdes Sereno visited Senator Anotnio Trillanes IV in his Senate office at noon today, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018. Trillanes and Sereno, along with their key staff members, were having lunch inside the senator’s office as of press time. Both are vocal critics of administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. Sereno had been ousted due to a petition for quo warranto filed by Solicitor General Jose […]
(Eagle News) – Senator Antonio Trillanes IV has changed his mind and said that he will still stay inside the Senate premises upon the “advice of some senators” a few hours after he had said he was prepared to leave the Senate grounds after the Supreme Court ruling denying his petition for a temporary restraining order. Trillanes said that he came out with his decision after allegedly making “direct engagements” with the “units” from […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Sept. 11, maintained the amnesty granted to Senator Antonio Trillanes IV was void ab initio because it was signed by then-Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and not by then-President Benigno Aquino III. In his tête-à-tête with Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo, Duterte said the granting of pardon or amnesty was, after all, “an act of state.” “It cannot be delegated to anybody but to the … president itself..Yung.. Constitution […]
