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                    [Title] => Congress to appeal Supreme Court ruling on JBC slot
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The leadership of the Senate and House of Representatives will appeal the decision of the Supreme Court giving Congress only one vote in the Judicial and Bar Council’s search for the next chief justice.

[DatePublished] => 2012-07-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 830330 [Title] => Palace hands off on Congress' representative in JBC [Summary] =>

Malacañang yesterday said it will not meddle in Congress’ decision on who should sit in the powerful Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) after the Supreme Court ruled that the legislative branch is allowed to have only one representative.

[DatePublished] => 2012-07-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804901 [AuthorName] => Aurea Calica [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 818512 [Title] => JBC OKs live coverage of CJ interviews [Summary] =>

The Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) yesterday approved live media coverage of oral interviews of candidates for the position of chief justice.

[DatePublished] => 2012-06-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096875 [AuthorName] => Edu Punay [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 575063 [Title] => Statement - Teachers ask for additional poll duty allowance [Summary] =>

Few days after the generally successful conduct of the first-ever fully automated elections in the country, teachers reminded the Comelec of their poll duty honorarium and asked for a 50% additional payment.

[DatePublished] => 2010-05-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 570675 [Title] => More harmful proposal? [Summary] =>

Our past elections which were manually conducted have shown us that all kinds of cheating can be committed with impunity especially in the counting and canvassing of votes.

[DatePublished] => 2010-04-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133340 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804883 [AuthorName] => Jose C. Sison [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 468728 [Title] => Alice in Senateland [Summary] =>

Lewis Carroll wrote in his iconic book Alice in Wonderland, “The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things.

[DatePublished] => 2009-05-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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