IF anyone wants to find out what happens in the confidential sessions of the Supreme Court, just ask Manila Times’ enterprising Jomar Canlas. The weakened SC, leaking like a sieve, cannot even threaten contempt as his sources would defend him. The CJ is resented by her seniors on the Court who believe they should have been CJ, not the new gal on the block.

The usual leakage could discourage free trade in ideas as today’s tentative devil’s advocate questioning could be misstated in the enterprising Times tomorrow and put a Justice in a bad light, thanks to the tendentious source/leaker.

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