Rene Saguisag
Rene Saguisag

On Janet Napoles, a friend emailed that he feared disinformation is entirely possible for underlings and subalterns to take the rap. Fair enough. However I don’t know whether the presidential power to pardon may be diminished by imposing sentences without the possibility of parole, as he suggested. The Constitutional power here is plenary. No parole seems to be SOP in truly heinous crimes in the U.S., but, arguably, not here. Pusong Mamon. Her mug shots show that she is being punished far beyond what any court can impose.

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