In Context
SC reminds Congress that budgeting has bounds
Congress has been reminded that the national budget is not a wish list, a political buffet, or an ATM where lawmakers can increase the withdrawal limit simply because the money looks lonely.
The money dances tinikling
Now you see the money. Now you don’t. And if Senator-Judge Vicente “Tito” Sotto III has the metaphor right, the money does not exactly disappear. It dances.
When guns become evidence of ill-gotten wealth
A gun is not ill-gotten wealth simply because it is a gun. But a P900,000 gun is not invisible money either.
VP Duterte’s business interests raise constitutional knot
Senator-judge Raffy Tulfo asked a deceptively simple question during Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial: Why did no one in her legal orbit tell her to divest from her businesses before she took her oath?
When 16 becomes a constitutional question
A Constitution is not a calculator. Yet when constitutional questions become uncomfortable, there is always a temptation to reach for one.
