#constitutional-violations

#constitutional-violations

The House wants the Senate to declare Duterte guilty on all four articles of impeachment, seeks her removal as vice president and her perpetual disqualification from holding any office in government. The impeachment requires a third of the votes from the House for approval to be sent to the Senate for trial. The vote threshold had already been reached as of May 7, a member of the House from Mindanao, Duterte's stronghold, told Al Jazeera.

The recent federal court order placing Rikers Island in receivership marks an unprecedented intervention to address ongoing violence, mismanagement, and constitutional violations at the facility.