Monday, March 13, 2017
170TH PERSUASIVE APPEAL_13MARCH17_TO THE SCP JUSTICES : STRAINING OUT A GNAT AND SWALLOWING A CAMEL
   23:13-33 The scribes and Pharisees were enemies to the gospel of Christ, and therefore to the salvation of the souls of men. It is bad to keep away from Christ ourselves, but worse also to keep others from him. Yet it is no new thing for the show and form of godliness to be made a cloak to the greatest enormities. But dissembled piety will be reckoned double iniquity. They were very busy to turn souls to be of their party. Not for the glory of God and the good of souls, but that they might have the credit and advantage of making converts. Gain being their godliness, by a thousand devices they made religion give way to their worldly interests. They were very strict and precise in smaller matters of the law, but careless and loose in weightier matters. It is not the scrupling a little sin that Christ here reproves; if it be a sin, though but a gnat, it must be strained out; but the doing that, and then swallowing a camel, or, committing a greater sin. While they would seem to be godly, they were neither sober nor righteous. We are really, what we are inwardly. Outward motives may keep the outside clean, while the inside is filthy; but if the heart and spirit be made new, there will be newness of life; here we must begin with ourselves. The righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees was like the ornaments of a grave, or dressing up a dead body, only for show. The deceitfulness of sinners' hearts appears in that they go down the streams of the sins of their own day, while they fancy that they should have opposed the sins of former days. We sometimes think, if we had lived when Christ was upon earth, that we should not have despised and rejected him, as men then did; yet Christ in his Spirit, in his word, in his ministers, is still no better treated. And it is just with God to give those up to their hearts' lusts, who obstinately persist in gratifying them. Christ gives men their true characters.
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Saturday, March 11, 2017
WE CAN LIVE WITHOUT THE MINING INDUSTRY : DUTERTE
 Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 11 2017 06:46 PM
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Friday, March 10, 2017
Duterte turning SC into Red Lions den?
Supreme Court facade. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO
Duterte out to make the Supreme Court a den of Red Lions?
Duterte turning SC into
Red Lions den?
Duterte out to make the Supreme Court a den of Red Lions?
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Mr. Duterte has made his first appointments to the Supreme Court—Justices Samuel Martires and Noel Tijam, both graduates of his alma mater, San Beda College of Law.
Martires, a former justice on the Sandiganbayan, replaced Justice Jose Perez, who retired from the Supreme Court last December.
Mr. Duterte has made known his preference for his schoolmates at San Beda in choosing officials for his administration.A former justice on the Court of Appeals, Tijam took the Supreme Court seat vacated by Justice Arturo Brion, who also retired last December.
12 appointments
He is expected to make at least 12 appointments to the Supreme Court during his six-year term, which expires in 2022.
Besides Martires and Tijam, he can appoint two more justices to the high court this year, with Justice Bienvenido Reyes retiring in July and Justice Jose Mendoza retiring in August.
Two vacancies will occur on the high court next year, with the retirements of Justice Presbitero Velasco in August and of Justice Teresita Leonardo-de Castro in October.
Four magistrates will retire in 2019—Justice Mariano del Castillo in July, Justice Francis Jardeleza in September, Senior Justice Antonio Carpio and Justice Lucas Bersamin in October.
Unlike justices on the Supreme Court of the United States, who serve for life, justices on the Supreme Court of the Philippines retire at 70.
Both Martires and Tijam are 68 and will serve only for two years. If Mr. Duterte is still in power by 2019—he says he may not be able to complete his term—he can appoint replacements for them, bringing to 12 his total appointments to the Supreme Court.
Of the current justices on the high court, only Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno and Justices Marvic Leonen and Alfredo Caguioa will outlast Mr. Duterte in office.
From other schools
Despite Mr. Duterte’s preference for Red Lions, presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella said not all of the next appointees to the Supreme Court would come from San Beda.
“He is, like I said, he is a man who listens. He is a man who’s deeply interested. He is a man who studies his subject matter and certainly he can go beyond his alma mater,” Abella told reporters on Thursday when asked whether Mr. Duterte intended to pack the Supreme Court with San Beda graduates.
Mr. Duterte’s decisions are guided not by personal interest but by public interest, Abella said.
“From what we can see, from his gauge, for public interest first. He must probably have seen that these classmates, these schoolmates were within the standards that he demanded,” he said.
Abella said Mr. Duterte’s future choices may not come from San Beda. He added, however, that Mr. Duterte’s “contacts” were “limited within a certain scope.”
With the appointments of Martires and Tijam, there are now four Red Lions on the Supreme Court. The other two are Mendoza and Reyes.
The President chooses appointees to the Supreme Court from candidates short-listed by the Judicial and Bar Council, which vets candidates for all judicial positions.
Before his appointment to the Supreme Court earlier this week, Martires was a member of the Third Division of the Sandiganbayan, which is hearing the plunder and graft charges against businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles, the alleged brains behind the P10-billion pork barrel scam.
Tijam, a classmate of Mr. Duterte at San Beda, was chair of the Seventh Division of the Court of Appeals before his appointment to the high court on Wednesday.
Among the high-profile cases handled by his division were the murders of radio commentator Gerry Ortega and Ruby Rose Barrameda. —WITH A REPORT FROM ANA ROA, INQUIRER RESEARCH
169TH PERSUASIVE APPEAL_10MARCH17_TO THE SCP JUSTICES : REVERSED METHAMORPHOSIS
  
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Thursday, March 9, 2017
168TH PERSUASIVE APPEAL_9MARCH17_TO THE SCP JUSTICES : I SHALL ASSUME THAT YOUR SILENCE GIVES CONSENT
  
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Wednesday, March 8, 2017
SECRETARY GINA LOPEZ: THE GEM THE DENR AND THE FILIPINO HOLD DEAREST
Published on Mar 8, 2017
Gina Lopez
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DUTERTE CLASSMATE, NOEL TIJAM, NAMED NEW SC ASSOCIATE JUSTICE
Tijam was also Magna Cum Laude at San Beda College, with a degree in bachelor of arts, major in philosophy and political science. He passed the Bar Examinations in 1971.
Tijam was one of three candidates shortlisted by the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) who got four votes. The seven people recommended by the JBC to the president was topped by CA Associate Justice Rosmari Carandang who got 6 votes.
During his interview at the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) last year, Tijam declined to answer if former President Benigno Aquino III should be held liable for the alleged illegal implementation of the P72-billion Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) in 2011, 2012, and 2013.
"Presidential immunity ceases when the president is no longer the incumbent. Whatever the opinion I share with you (JBC) might be resented by the few remaining friends I have at SC, and may be misconstrued as prejudgment,” he told the JBC in November.
He also reassured the panel that, if appointed, he will not allow his decisions to be influenced by the president, despite being former classmates.
In 2012, Tijam penned the CA decision which stopped the reopening of Banco Filipino and the infusion of P25 billion, through the central bank, to fund its rehabilitation.
He also penned the CA decision that junked former ARMM Governor Zaldy Ampatuan's petition that sought the nullification of his indictment for the Maguindanao massacre case.
In 2013, he wrote the decision affirming President Benigno Aquino III’s Executive Order No. 2, which nullified former president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s so-called “midnight appointments” during the 2010 election ban.
Prior to presiding over cases at the CA starting 2003, Tijam was appointed in 1994 to the Regional Trial Court of Quezon City, Branch 221.
He is married to Ma. Cynthia Cornejo Tijam, and has 3 children and 4 grandchildren. --with reports from Willard Cheng and Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News
Published on Nov 17, 2016
TATAK DUTERTE: Justice Noel Tijam - JBC Interview for Associate Justice Nomination
TATAK DUTERTE: Justice Noel Tijam - JBC Interview for Associate Justice Nomination
167TH PERSUASIVE APPEAL_8MARCH17_TO THE SCP JUSTICES : GO BUY A "FIELD OF BLOOD"
  
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Tuesday, March 7, 2017
166TH PERSUASIVE APPEAL_7MARCH17_TO THE SCP JUSTICES : JESUS WAS DISOWNED EVEN BY HIS CLOSEST FRIEND
   
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