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Raphael Reyes/Rappler
Lawyers might revel in procedure, but the public judges politically. Citizens evaluate trust, legitimacy and abuse of office.
Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial started with two members of the Senate mentioning which law school they graduated from. Later on, unfortunate comparisons between non-lawyers and lawyers were made. There were also veiled suggestions that lawyers will have a better grasp of what was to come.
The allusions may have prompted Senator Panfilo Lacson to post about a colleague “who has been lecturing us since Day 1 of the impeachment trial, as if being not members of the bar, we will be less judicious in rendering fair judgment.”
