Let’s start with Neri and executive privilege: A timeline courtesy of the PCIJ. My column today is A color of constitutionality The Inquirer editorial today is In aid of transparency, My column was less enthusiastic than today’s editorial about the compromise offered by the Chief Justice: Fr. Joaquin Bernas, S.J. who, by all accounts, was [...]

Update, 4:52 pm. (first reported by Inquirer.net) Arroyo revokes EO 464: “Effectively immediately, I am revoking EO 464. Executive officials may no longer invoke EO 464 to excuse non-attendance from legislative inquiries,” President Arroyo said. I have questions for the lawyers: 1. If the President’s formally revoked E.O. 464, what happens, does it mean what [...]

The Long View A color of constitutionality    By Manuel L. Quezon III Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 23:30:00 03/05/2008   Last Monday, I ran into someone respected in legal circles, and asked him what he thought would happen in the Supreme Court. He said the case of Romulo Neri’s invoking executive privilege was cut-and-dried: [...]

He noticed that last Friday, the President held a mass oath-taking at the Palace, to which the military noticeable didn’t turn up.

…The CBCP in its pastoral exhortation, the Simbahang Lingkod ng Bayan of the Ateneo, and the group of former government officials in their statement issued today.

“The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain (Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures)” (David Cannadine)