Trial in limbo after Senate returns Sara impeachment articles to House

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The Senate decides to return the Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Sara Duterte to the House of Representatives.  Full story: https://www.rappler.com/philippines/senate-returns-sara-duterte-impeachment-articles-house-representatives/

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00:00The Senate decides to return the articles of impeachment against Vice President Sara

00:04Duterte to the House of Representatives.

00:07This after the Senate convened as an impeachment court on Tuesday, June 10.

00:11The move is supposedly to allow the lower chamber to address alleged constitutional infirmities

00:16in the complaint.

00:18Senators allied with Duterte earlier argue that the impeachment articles are not constitutionally

00:22sound, citing the same arguments the vice president presented before the Supreme Court.

00:27Duterte claimed the lower chamber deliberately froze the impeachment process when it sat

00:31on supposedly weak complaints because if junked, she would get a constitutional one-year immunity

00:36from impeachment.

00:37Senator Bato De La Rosa initially wanted to dismiss the case, but the motion was later

00:42amended to remand the case until such a time that the following are accomplished.

00:46The minority bloc argues that remanding the case is tantamount to its dismissal, but Senate

00:51President and presiding officer Cheez Escudero insisted it does not.

00:55Motion to dismiss, or motion to remand, isa lang po yan.

01:00Motion to return, isa lang po yan lahat.

01:03It is an effective termination of the impeachment.

01:07Remanding is a functional dismissal.

01:10The move to remand the case to the House, however, is likely to cast doubts on the future

01:14of the trial.

01:16There have been debates on whether the impeachment case can carry over from the 19th Congress to

01:20the 20th.

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