MANILA, Philippines — San Beda University Graduate School of Law Dean Fr. Ranhilio Aquino said the 16-vote threshold for convicting Vice President Sara Duterte in her impeachment trial should not be treated as fixed, arguing that only senators who actually participated in the proceedings should be counted. In a memorandum of law dated Sept. 7 and submitted to the Senate impeachment court, Aquino said the Constitution’s requirement of the “concurrence of two-thirds of all the Members of the Senate” must be read together with the provision granting the Senate the “sole power to try and decide all cases of impeachment.” Aquino’s […]...

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