Carpio: Interventions on Duterte impeachment anchored on court rules

Retired Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio maintained Friday that due process has been observed in the way they are ''intervening'' in the impeachment case of Vice President Sara Duterte. 

In an interview on Super Radyo dzBB, Carpio was asked for comment on the tirades of Senate President Francis ''Chiz'' Escudero against retired SC justices who are critical of the high court’s ruling on the impeachment of Duterte. 

''We are following the process, there is still a motion for recon and kami sa 1Sambayan we intervened because this is a very important case, dahil before that we already filed a case on confidential funds and what is at issue here, in this case, are also confidential funds so we are intervening following the process under the Constitution, under the rules of court. Allowed naman 'yung MR, allowed naman 'yung intervention,'' Carpio explained.

''So we are not saying we are super Supreme Court, we are following the process laid out by the Supreme Court,'' he added. 

To recall, political coalition 1Sambayan and others had asked the High Tribunal to issue a status quo ante order that will pause the proceedings of the impeachment trial of the Vice President. 

The petitioners filed a motion to be allowed to intervene in the impeachment cases as well as to admit their motion for reconsideration, where they asked the SC to issue a status quo ante order and to set the case for oral arguments.

On Wednesday, the Senate voted to transfer to the archives the articles of impeachment against Duterte, following the decision of the SC to declare her impeachment unconstitutional.

For her part, Duterte urged respect for the ruling by the Senate. —AOL, GMA Integrated News