Corona’s impeachment trial will educate nation
As the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato C. Corona winds down, it’s not too late for the prosecutors, defense lawyers, senator-judges, and all other parties concerned, to heed the advice of Robert H. Jackson, former solicitor general, attorney general, justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and chief prosecutor in Nuremberg: “…to temper zest with human kindness; to seek truth and not victims; to serve the law and not factional interests; and to approach the task with humility.”
Some western nations like the United States and the United Kingdom have had their impeachments and even civil wars and violent revolutions, but they grew and prospered.
Properly handled and judiciously resolved, the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Corona will mold our leaders and our people, and educate our nation.
—ANTONIO A. AGUSTIN, dean,
Manuel L. Quezon University,
