Nine justices vs the Constitution

I was with Christian and Muslim leaders of the National Transformation Council in Mindanao on Tuesday when nine of the 15 Justices of the Supreme Court voted to reverse the ruling of the Commission on Elections En Banc disqualifying Sen. Grace Poe Llamanzares as a presidential candidate and cancelling her Certificate of Candidacy, for misrepresenting herself as a natural-born citizen and a resident of the country for 10 years and 11 months (counted backwards from the day before the May 9 election).  This has electrified the Llamanzares camp, but it may have destabilized and endangered the peace of the nation.

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