JUST IN: Defeated 2016 VP candidate Bongbong Marcos seeks inhibition of Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen from his election protest vs VP Leni Robredo before the Presidential Electoral Tribunal. Asks for reraffle and resolution of pending incidents.
Marcos himself was present during the filing of his motion seeking to inhibit SC AJ Marvic Leonen from his election protest case. But he did not grant interviews. An online presscon is scheduled at 10am.
Why does Bongbong want Leonen out of PET election protest? He cites Leonen’s position in the Marcos burial case as evidence of bias vs Marcos family and a 2-part news article on The Manila Times.
Reina Mae Nasino also inside Manila North Cemetery
LOOK: Reina Mae and baby River
Situation now inside the Manila North Cemetery from where I'm standing: Reina Mae Nasino, mother Marites Asis pay last respects to baby River. Karapatan says Nasino's lawyers begged BJMP officers to remove Nasino's handcuffs. They refused.
Ahead of Baby River’s burial, supporters and the media have started arriving outside La Funeraria Rey in Pandacan, Manila. Management of funeral home has not yet allowed anyone to go inside saying they will limit access to 30 people.
Marites Asis, mother of Reina Mae Nasino, asks for privacy. Instead of mass at 9:30 at the funeral home, baby River’s remains will be blessed at Sto. Niño church at 10:30am. No word yet if 10am presscon will push thru.
LOOK: SWAT personnel have also arrived outside the funeral home ahead of baby River’s burial
Fides Lim, KAPATID spokesperson, criticizes the Supreme Court for long wait on petition for release of prisoners, only to refer it to lower courts: Pinaghintay niyo kami at binigo.
Lim to SC: We continue to appeal -- do not stand in your own way. Chief Justice Peralta, you have 2 more years to be true to your own words about our petition.
Lim was referring to Peralta's previous statement in a press release that detainees are presumed innocent.
Lim says they will pursue writ of kalayaan as suggested by SC Associate Justice Marvic Leonen in his separate opinion.
Lim: The Peralta court is provided with remedy with writ of kalayaan. Prove it, don’t be a passive court. Be a humane court.
Justice Sec Menardo Guevarra says the Anti-Terrorism Council has approved today the implementing rules and regulations of the Anti-Terrorism law crafted by a technical group led by the Justice dept.
Copies of Anti-Terrorism law’s IRR to be disseminated to Congress, law enforcement agencies and published online Friday and in newspaper of general circulation over the weekend. IRR to take effect upon publication, submission to ONAR in UP Diliman Friday.
Guevarra says there are no specific provisions in IRR on social media regulation. Says he expects Anti-Terrorism law’s IRR will possibly face the same legal challenge that the law on which it is based faces in the Supreme Court.