Senate is right to probe Duterte’s reinstatement of Marvin Marcos

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte will suffer his first big setback in the 16thCongress when the Senate, through the Senate committee on public order, conducts its inquiry into the reinstatement of Marvin Marcos as well as the downgrading of homicide charges against him for the killing of Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr.

The republic’s senators, on both sides of the political fence, are not “cowards” and “puppets” as Sen. Antonio Trillanes has charged. They see the holes in the President’s incredible order. And they will demand through the inquiry that the mistake is rectified.