🔴BREAKING NEWS:Top Supreme Court Justice Escudero Luistro Kapunan Trillanes Diokno VP Sara TRO

The Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed separate petitions challenging the Senate Impeachment Court’s interpretation of the two-thirds vote requirement needed to convict Vice President Sara Duterte.In a press release, the High Court dismissed the petitions filed separately by lawyers Victor Rodriguez, Ernesto Francisco Jr. and disbarred lawyer Berteni Cataluña Causing for lack of standing and prematurity.The SC dismissed the petitions on procedural grounds, including lack of standing and prematurity,” the SC’s press release read.The petitions sought to nullify the ruling of the Senate Impeachment Court, which determined that the phrase “all the Members of the Senate” under Article XI, Section 3(6) of the Constitution applies only to senators who are legally and actually capable of participating in the impeachment proceedings at the time of the vote.The petitioners argued that the tribunal's interpretation violated the explicit language of the 1987 Constitution.Rodriguez contended that the Impeachment Court effectively altered the Constitution by introducing a qualification notfound in its text.He asked the High Court to declare that any modification to Article XI, Section 3(6) must strictly follow the constitutional amendment or revision process, alongside a prayer for a temporary restraining order (TRO).