PAPUNTA SA DAANG MATUWID

The parallels bet Roosevelt's and Aquino's attempts to control the SCourts of their countries are so striking that it is not Corona but Aquino who would be worrying. That was how the great American columnist Walter Lippmann described Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's attempt in 1937 to control the SC. Roosevelt victory would have meant that "one man shall become the master of all 3 branches of the govt and the fundamental law well, "if PNoy gets the backing of the senators to impeach Corona and attack our SC, Lippmann wrote "they would have lost their instinct for liberty and their understanding of constitutional govt." (Outlook, Roberto Tiglao of Inquirer)