After the ‘Enrile Decision,’ what’s next for SC?

THE BROUHAHA over the Supreme Court decision granting bail to Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile in a plunder case provided the legal community some “exotic” food for thought. Many say it is a political accommodation; others opine it was rendered without basis in law.

And now the ponente has to formally complain to Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno about a dissenting colleague “for gross distortions and putting him in bad light.” This spectacle of the ponente taking to task a colleague for the way the latter dissented from the majority decision is as rare as removing a chief justice from office.

While we discern robustness in the Supreme Court from this latest incident, we also delight in seeing a judicial divide percolating in the highest tribunal.

The country needs such display of erudite discussion of important issues affecting our lives. An honest-to-goodness investigation and the eventual resolution of the matter will surely enrich students of law and the bar as well.

—BENJIE GUERRERO, Business Center, Sulo Riviera, Diliman, Quezon City