Quick Lines

Certain respected lawyers said that in the interest of check and balance in the government, there is no absolute supremacy of one branch of government. And they seem to say--  except for the Supreme Court.

Chief Justice Renato Corona said in one of his speeches before his subordinates in the high court that he is not the Supreme Court; that's because the high court decides cases as a group (en banc). Then lately he said that he is a stumbling block to those who do not want the Hacienda Luisita distributed to the farmers. He is saying now that he is the Supreme Court. [Only the Supreme Court deciding banc can be that stumbling block.]