Insider needed for wounded Supreme Court—Justice Abad
By Christine O. Avendaño, Jerome Aning, TJ Burgonio
A wounded Supreme Court may need one of its own—not an outsider—to lead in the healing process.

A wounded Supreme Court may need one of its own—not an outsider—to lead in the healing process.
Three junior justices of the Supreme Court have also been nominated for the position of the Chief Justice, according to the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC).
There is nothing “inherently wrong” with the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) decision to purchase “precinct count optical scan” (PCOS) machines from election technology provider Smartmatic-TIM, a Supreme Court Associate Justice said Wednesday.

The hope that there would be land for farmers of Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI) will have to be put to a vote yet again. The farmers will again have to choose whether they want to have their own land or shares of stocks in the hacienda owned by the family of President Benigno Aquino III, [...]