Renato Corona Asks Supreme Court TRO on Impeachment
by Karen Boncocan – PDI
Chief Justice Renato Corona’s petition for a temporary restraining order against the impeachment proceedings that was filed before the Supreme Court Wednesday wasn’t meant to disrespect the Senate, defense lawyers said.
Karen Jimeno said they were not violating the Constitution with their petition because they were only asking questions of law which only the high court had powers over. “Incidental matters should be brought to the appropriate institution.”
She said they were not asking the Supreme Court to look into matters under the jurisdiction of the impeachment court. She explained that the defense team wanted to avoid further delay and they filed the petition so that “ngayon pa lang… [we are bringing up] questions of law, para madesisyunan na [so that it can be decided on].”