The letter of Ombudsman Carpio-Morales to the CJ asking the latter to explain his alleged $10-million bank deposit has only brought to the fore two unassailable truths. One, as of now there are as yet not enough senator-judges' votes to convict Corona; and two, Carpio-Morales is no different from her predecessor, Merceditas Gutierrez. That is, Gutierrez is to GMA as Morales is to PNoy. They are both rabid lapdogs, ready to bite anyone their masters would ask them to. I though Carpio-Morales was a different breed; she is not.
Indeed, it has been a well-known fact from the very outset that PNoy knew he could not successfully impeach Corona in the Senate. And so, he and his allies demonized Corona with the media and before the bar of public opinion, with the one-consuming obsession to force the CJ to resign his post. The thing is, he did not.
Now that the prosecution's case in the Senate has been fast collapsing -- it had already reached the moribund stage when the trial took its Holy Week break -- there is clear reason to believe the Ombudsman knows she must now apply her last-ditch, desperate effort to demonize the CJ even more. Quite unfortunately, that effort is bound to end up as a futile exercise as far as improving the prosecution's chance in the impeachment trial is concerned. Why? Simply because the $10-million charge is rather too late the hero, being, firstly, not part of the original complaints, and secondly, the prosecution has now rested its case. More importantly, even granting, yet without accepting, that the Ombudsman has really the legal jurisdiction to investigate the CJ on allegedly anomalous money matters, Article 2.4 (which relate to unexplained wealth) has been scrapped by the impeachment court. It is only the Senate that has the right to try an impeachment case. At best, the Ombudsman's letter may only form some basis for a new impeachment case, but that may only happen one year from now. Better luck next time, folks!
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