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The SC affirms the 2025 determination that barred the impeachment proceedings towards the Vice President, stopping a full-blown trial from taking place
MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court docket (SC) has affirmed its ruling that barred the impeachment proceedings towards Vice President Sara Duterte final yr.
The Excessive Court docket, in a choice introduced on Thursday, January 29, denied the movement for reconsideration that sought to overturn the SC determination that voided the impeachment complaints towards the Vice President.
SC spokesperson Camille Sue Mae Ting mentioned the SC en banc unanimously voted to uphold that the fourth impeachment criticism towards the Vice President was already coated by the one-year bar rule.
On July 25, 2025, the SC barred the impeachment proceedings towards Duterte on the grounds of due course of. Senior Affiliate Justice Marvic Leonen penned the 2025 ruling.
The SC mentioned the complaints towards the Vice President had been barred by the one-year bar rule on impeachment. This rule, discovered within the 1987 Structure, states that “impeachment proceedings [cannot] be initiated towards the identical official greater than as soon as inside a interval of 1 yr.”
In complete, Duterte confronted 4 impeachment complaints earlier than the Home of Representatives. The primary three didn’t materialize, and the Vice President was impeached on the fourth criticism pushed by a decision signed by the mandatory one third of the Home members.
The Vice President had argued earlier than the SC that by not taking motion on the primary three complaints, the Home “intentionally [froze] all the initiation and impeachment course of,” rendering the one-year bar rule of the Structure.
The Excessive Court docket favored this argument in 2025, ruling that the inaction on the primary three complaints already triggered the one-year bar rule.
With the SC ruling, a full-blown impeachment trial within the Senate ailed to push via. The Senate, appearing because the impeachment courtroom, additionally moved to archive the criticism towards the Vice President.
The Home appealed the SC determination earlier than the Excessive Court docket via a movement for reconsideration in August. — Rappler.com
