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MARIA CAROLINA P. ARAULLO v. BENIGNO SIMEON C. AQUINO III

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2015-09-07
VELASCO JR., J.
What I have said of judicial review in Araullo v. Aquino[64] vis-a-vis statutory interpretation also applies to other government acts such as in this case: Judicial review should take a more deferential temperament when the interpretation of a statutory provision involves political choices. At the very least, these questions should be deferred until parties in the proper case using the appropriate remedy are able to lay down the ambient facts that can show that one interpretation adopted by government respondents clearly and categorically runs afoul of any law or constitutional provision. In my separate opinion in Umali v. Commission on Elections, I noted: