193 NPA attacks in Mindanao in 2018, AFP official says

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 08:19:31 +0000

There were 193 New People’s Army (NPA)-initiated “violent incidents” in 2018 in Mindanao alone, a military official told the Supreme Court Tuesday.

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Supreme Court set to hear oral arguments vs martial law

Credit to Author: cbibe| Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 01:36:25 +0000

Supreme Court set to hear oral arguments vs martial law

Two days after the twin bombing in Jolo, the Supreme Court will scrutinize the necessity of a third martial law extension in Mindanao.

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Several States Urge Federal Court to Rule on Clean Power Plan

Seventeen states have asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to reject the Trump administration’s efforts to further delay the court’s decision on legal challenges to the Clean Power Plan. In a filing with the court on September 4, the attorneys general of California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, […]

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Opposition senators want oral arguments on PH’s ICC withdrawal postponed

Opposition senators on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to postpone the oral arguments on its petition challenging the constitutionality of the Duterte administration’s action withdrawing the country’s membership from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

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SC Justices say LGBT petition on same-sex marriage may be dismissed

SC Justices say LGBT petition on same-sex marriage may be dismissed

The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community may lose a very interesting case for “aggressively” taking the case to the Supreme Court “without a careful preparation,” a Supreme Court Associate Justice said Tuesday.

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