The Supreme Court (SC) hears starting this morning oral arguments on the burial of the late former President Ferdinand E. Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB) in Taguig City. Six petitions have been filed against the burial ordered by President Duterte. The SC has issued a status quo ante order that stopped temporarily its implementation until Sept. 12. The SC has invited as resource persons Chairperson Maria Serena Diokno of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, former Local Government Secretary Rafael M. Alunan, and representatives from the Presidential Commission on Good Government, the Office of the Ombudsman, the Human Rights Claims Board, and the Commission on Human Rights. Among the procedural concerns to be tackled by the parties are whether the issues presented in the petitions constitute a judicial controversy, whether the petitioners have legal standing to file the cases, whether administrative remedies were exhausted, and whether [...]
