What Law Bending in Impeachment Trial? Barbers Turns the Tables on VP Duterte

Congress can take up disaster response too

HOUSE Deputy Speaker and Samar Rep. Gina “Sarah” Garin on Monday said disaster response and the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte can proceed simultaneously, rejecting suggestions that Congress was prioritizing the trial over Filipinos affected by severe weather.“It is not true that we are not attending to the problems of the people,” Garin said in an online press briefing with the House prosecution team.She said government agenci…

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What law bending in impeachment trial? Barbers turns the tables on VP Duterte

House impeachment adviser Robert Ace Barbers clapped back at Vice President Sara Duterte after the latter claimed that her ongoing Senate impeachment trial was full of “law bending”."The accusation of law bending is perhaps best addressed to the defense," Barbers, prosecution panel spokesperson, said over the weekend.“On behalf of the prosecution team, we vehemently deny that we are engaged in so-called ‘law bending’ in the conduct of the impeac…