Our continuing sins against the Constitution

WE have a government that continues to violate the most important tenets of our Constitution, and yet it goes on unaffected by its gross constitutional offenses. The gravest of these are in the area of national security and foreign affairs — two most delicate areas of state politics — and they constitute grave impeachable offenses for which the president, if impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate, may be removed and permanently barred from holding public office.

Yet Congress has not shown the slightest concern about this sad state of affairs. The reason is that both the House of Representatives, which has the exclusive power to initiate all cases of impeachment, and the Senate, which has the sole power to try and decide all such cases, are under the effective control of the President. Both houses are run by close confidantes and allies of President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. — the House by his first cousin, Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez, and the Senate by Senate President Juan Miguel "Migz" Zubiri — and are not likely to act against his interests.