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2014-01-28 |
BRION, J. |
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| In Brillantes, Jr. v. Yorac,[46] we emphasized that the Constitutional Commissions, which have been characterized under the Constitution as "independent," are not under the control of the President, even if they discharge functions that are executive in nature. The Court declared as unconstitutional the President's act of temporarily appointing the respondent in that case as Acting Chairman of the Comelec "however well-meaning"[47] it might have been. | |||||
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2012-09-18 |
PERALTA, J. |
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| Section 1,[95] Article IX-A of the 1987 Constitution expressly describes all the Constitutional Commissions as independent. Although essentially executive in nature, they are not under the control of the President of the Philippines in the discharge of their respective functions.[96] The Constitution envisions a truly independent Comelec committed to ensure free, orderly, honest, peaceful, and credible elections and to serve as the guardian of the people's sacred right of suffrage the citizenry's vital weapon in effecting a peaceful change of government and in achieving and promoting political stability.[97] | |||||
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2012-09-18 |
PERALTA, J. |
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| Meanwhile, on October 17, 2011, Senator Aquilino Pimentel III (Senator Pimentel) filed a Complaint-Affidavit[18] for Electoral Sabotage against petitioners and twelve others[19] and several John Does and Jane Does. The case was docketed as DOJ-Comelec Case No. 002-2011. | |||||
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2012-09-04 |
PERLAS-BERNABE, J. |
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| It is true that the authority of the Office of the Ombudsman to conduct administrative investigations proceeds from its constitutional mandate to be an effective protector of the people against inept and corrupt government officers and employees,[27] and is subsumed under the broad powers "explicitly conferred" upon it by the 1987 Constitution and R.A. No. 6770.[28] | |||||