MLA STANDARD: Stop case vs Arroyo - Pampanga Residents of the second district of Pampanga have asked the Supreme Court to stop the trial in the Sandiganbayan against their representative, former President Gloria Arroyo, and allow her to perform her duties as member of Congress, their lawyers said on Sunday. The residents said the issue of "undue deprivation of representation" is guaranteed by law and that their representative was deprived of due process when she was arrested a day before a hearing was set on her motion questioning the Ombudsman's findings of probable cause against her.

TRIBUNE: Leila to CJ: Consult JBC before firing psychologist
It looks like CJ Lourdes Sereno has done it again: Firing 4 court psychologist without as much as consulting the JBC, which is no different from Sereno coming up with a falsified resolution she had wanted the SC en banc never agreed to her plan of reopening the Regional Court Administration Office in the Visayas. The heartless decision of CJ Sereno to terminate the employment of 4 psychologist employed by the JBC days before Christmas is part of a call to "cleanse" the screening process, the collegial body said yesterday.

ABS-CBN: Economy fails to boost holiday cheer among Pinoys
- Based on a survey done by the Social Weather Stations, 64% of adult Filipinos expect a happy Christmas, unchanged from the same levels in 2011. The expectation of happy Christmas, in fact, declined from 69% in 2010.

ABS-CBN: Top Story: Binay, Enrile go to Cebu to support Garcia - Vice President Jejomar Binay and Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile have both left for Cebu in order to give their support for suspended Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia.

ABS-CBN NEWS:
- "The intervenors stand to benefit or be prejudiced with respect to the outcome of the case at hand because it is our representation to the House of Representatives that is unduly affected in this case. The intervenors humbly submit that they have as much interest in this case because of the issue of undue deprivation of representation as guaranteed under the law," they stressed. They said that if evidence is weak, the high court should immediately be resolved "so that she could devote her time to serving her constituents in her district," read their seven-page petition filed through lawyer Vinalyn Potot-Baluran. 

ABS-CBN NEWS: Arroyo supporters ask SC to stop Sandiganbayan trial
- The constituents of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo have asked the Supreme Court to stop her trial before the Sandiganbayan linking her to the alleged plunder of P366 million in PCSO funds. Petitioners Rico Ocampo, Eugene Paul Ponio, Marcelo Valencia and Joaquin Manalac filed a motion for intervention before the high court on Friday. They are all voters from the 2nd district of Pampanga, where Arroyo is district representative.

INQUIRER: Ousted Chief Justice Renato Corona is confident the Department of Justice (DOJ) will throw out the P150-million tax evasion case against him, his daughter and son-in-law after the panel handling their case had completed its preliminary investigation on Friday. Speaking to reporters after appearing at the DOJ for the last hearing of the tax evasion case filed against his family by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), Corona described the complaint against him as "an endless series of double counting of accounts." "That kind of complaint by the BIR is for propaganda. It is not for a court of law," Corona said.

Aksyon: 1/ doj sec de lima surprised at news cj sereno fires sc psychologist; say any action should be sc en banc; una blames dilg sec roxas for worsening political crisis in cebu, says they condemn any use of force to remove garcia.

ANC: ex-chief justice renato corona attends the last hearing this year of his tax evasion case at the doj. corona maintain his innocence and calls the case weak and mere propaganda.

Pnoy politics GANGLAND STYLE - Pnoy calling for unity - after RAILROADING cybercrime bill, sin tax bill, RH bill, and an impending divorce bill, trying to boot out espino and garcia causing uproars in pangasinan and cebu - AND HE WANTS UNITY? What a hypocrite !