In Context
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.
When expertise becomes inconvenient, listen first
When judges and lawyers can sometimes get the law wrong, why should non-lawyers presume they know better?
