As it was filed in July last year, Aquino’s Senate Bill 699 actually proposes nothing of the sort, which is really sneaky on the part of this Ninoy lookalike-wannabe. “If my bill becomes law, the taxpayer will have the power to choose where to spend a portion of their taxes,” Aquino explained yesterday. This could be the scenario as a result of the junking of the second verified impeachment complaint against Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. Because the House wants to hear it first, the Bautista complaint is now in danger of suffering the same fate as the second Sereno charge sheet. And by dismissing the second complaint against Sereno, the panel has now laid the predicate for the dismissal of Bautista’s charges using the same rule.

Source: The Standard September 14, 2017 13:41 UTC