How can 6 justices dominate Supreme Court?

In his Jan. 2 article, Amando Doronila pointed out that the impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona, along with the rumor that two other Supreme Court justices are also to be impeached, would result in a Supreme Court dominated by appointees of President Aquino.

Doronila got his math wrong: of the 15 Supreme Court justices now, only three are appointees of P-Noy. Three more vacancies would raise that number to six P-Noy appointees.

Since when can six justices dominate a field of 15 justices voting as a collegial body? And even if the time comes when the majority of the Supreme Court justices would have been appointed by President Aquino, I do not see anything wrong with that.

Unlike his predecessor, President Aquino occupies a moral high ground and does not have an agenda to protect himself and his administration from prosecution in the future.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo packed the Supreme Court with her appointees, who are led by Corona, precisely to shield herself and her allies from accountability for the plunder, electoral sabotage and corruption scandals that marred her administration.

The same cannot be said of P-Noy who is the antithesis of all that is corrupt in this country.

Likewise, the claim of Doronila that the Aquino administration has no concrete accomplishments to show, except its prosecution of past administration officials, is highly debatable—and utterly biased against P-Noy, as can be gleaned from the tenor of his previous articles.

I mean, Doronila cannot seem to see anything right in what President Aquino is doing and he seems hell-bent to oppose P-Noy’s moves, actions and programs for the sake of opposing them.

Lastly, it should be said that no governmental program can be expected to succeed unless the machinery that has been put in place to perpetrate and perpetuate graft and corruption would be dismantled first.

—ALBERTO BEGORNIA,

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