Lawyers ask SC to nullify impeachment raps vs VP Sara

A group of lawyers, led by Atty. Israelito Torreon, has asked the Supreme Court (SC) to intervene and nullify the Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte for alleged failure to meet Constitutional requirements.

Torreon urged the SC to issue a restraining order preventing the Senate from acting on the impeachment case while the matter is pending.

The petition argues that impeachment trials cannot be carried over from one Congress to the next, citing rules that pending matters do not automatically transfer to a new legislative session.

The lawyers emphasized that the 19th Congress, including the current senators' terms, is set to end on June 30, questioning the logic of imposing proceedings from one Congress onto another.

The petition followed the Senate's convening as an impeachment court, which had remanded the complaint to the House of Representatives to rectify supposed constitutional infirmities.

Petitioners cited new and critical developments in the impeachment proceedings before the Senate as grounds for seeking a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO).