Defending the law in our time of lawlessness

IT was shameless. After opposing Chief Justice Renato Corona’s appointment, then dispensing with the tradition of having the CJ administer his oath of office, President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III asked a favor from the man he disdained.

Just weeks after his inauguration, Aquino spoke with Corona at a close family member’s home, according to an unimpeachable source present at the meeting. There the Chief Executive conveyed his request to the Chief Justice regarding his Cojuangco clan’s Supreme Court petition against the redistribution of Hacienda Luisita.