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Alan Peter Cayetano appears willing to court — or even manufacture — a constitutional crisis, placing personal and factional interests above the institutional stability of the Senate

Former US president Barack Obama, in The Audacity of Hope, made an observation that may prove especially relevant in the Philippines today:

“(O)ne of the surprising things about Washington is the amount of time spent arguing not about what the law should be, but rather what the law is. The simplest statute…can become the subject of wildly different interpretations, depending on who you are talking to…

“Some of this is by design, a design of the complex machinery of checks and balances…