'Debt service' was how Makabayan-Nacionalista senatorial bet Liza Maza called the Department of Justice's decision to acquit two members of the Ampatuan clan who are primary suspects to the Ampatuan, Maguindanao massacre in November 2009.
MANILA, Philippines - The Supreme Court (SC) was asked yesterday to reconsider its ruling last week allowing President Arroyo to appoint the next chief justice despite the ban on midnight appointments.
Gabriela Representative and Makabayan-Nacionalista senatorial candidate Liza Maza agreed with Supreme Court Justice Reynato Puno’s incisive assessment of the “legal roadblocks” faced by women and children who are victims of violence and abuse such as the non-regularization of family courts which were created through Republic Act No. 8369 more than a decade ago in 1997.
