THE Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday junked the plea of Malacañang to defer for the next two months the hearings on the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) as a former lawmaker feared that any more delays asked by the palace could be converted into lobby votes with the justices favoring its constitutionality.

The high court, en banc, on Tuesday denied the plea of Executive Department to move the oral arguments on March 25 and gave the palace until January 28 to present its arguments in defense of DAP.

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