The ‘right’ of foundlings or the ‘right’ of one moneyed foundling?

I had to leave the highly enriching 51st International Eucharistic Congress in Cebu on Tuesday to be at the less enriching resumption of the Oral Arguments before the Supreme Court on the disqualification of Sen. Grace Poe Llamanzares as presidential candidate, and did not have to sit all of three hours to realize I should have stayed in Cebu.

The Commission on Elections has disqualified Mrs. Llamanzares and cancelled her Certificate of Candidacy as a presidential candidate, on the basis of four petitions filed by Estrella Elamparo, Antonio Contreras, Amado Valdez, and myself. But the Court temporarily restrained the implementation of the Comelec rulings, and decided to hear her petition for certiorari, alleging grave abuse of discretion, amounting to excess or lack of jurisdiction, on the part of the Comelec.