VP Sara Duterte defends law school record, hits House ‘mini trial’

Of all accusations, Sara Duterte pushes back on claim she lacks smarts

Throughout her vice presidency, Sara Duterte has faced a cascade of accusations – misuse of public funds, a threat against the President, and enabling state-sanctioned killings in her hometown. Most of them she has brushed aside, often with blanket denials. But one allegation appears to have touched a nerve: a suggestion that she lacked the intellect to get through law school on her own. On Wednesday, April 15, Duterte pushed back at her self-co…

VP Sara Duterte defends law school record, hits House ‘mini trial’

Vice President Sara Duterte on Wednesday defended her academic record and lashed out at lawmakers, following claims raised during a House committee on justice hearing on the impeachment complaints against her that she described as a “mini trial.”

VP Sara says she never asked help to obtain her law degree

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 15 April) — Vice President Sara Duterte said she never requested special consideration for her grades while a student at San Sebastian College-Recoletos (SSC-R) College of Law, contradicting claims made by Ramil Madriaga, a key witness in the impeachment complaints against her. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Duterte refuted Madriaga’s statement that she needed help from her professor to obtain her law degree, but did…

ABANTE TO HOUSE: EVALUATE MADRIAGA’S TESTIMONY

The testimony of Ramil Madriaga gives the House Committee on Justice a disturbing look at how public money may have been moved in ways that bypassed the normal safeguards of accountability, according to Manila Representative Benny Abante who said the allegations are too serious to brush aside as mere noise or technical theater. Abante, an endorser of the fourth impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte, raised that point in a man…