Poor CJ Corona had no chance at all

But for practical purposes, CJ Corona was no less equipped for such eventuality. He was reputed to enjoy the backing of the two most powerful churches in the country, the Catholic Church and the Iglesia ni Cristo. Should, therefore, President Aquino have chosen to play his people power card in the event of a Senate acquittal, or anything to that effect, of the Chief Justice, the country was up for a head-on collision among millions of warm bodies.

All the paragraphs below until the end appear as I wrote them at the time the Corona impeachment drama was happening.