Here it comes: the inevitable Aquino administration backlash against the Supreme Court for its unanimous decisions declaring both the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) and the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) unconstitutional.

There may be good governance reasons to investigate and scrap the Judicial Development Fund, but the timing and the tone of legislators pushing the JDF probe point to other motives like financially getting back at the justices and morally undermining their stature in the public arena.

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