Justice delayed

WHILE I have personal reservations about the impeachment complaint filed in Congress against Associate Justice Marvic Mario Victor Leonen, I am equally uncomfortable about the dismissive attitude of some people regarding the delay in the disposition of electoral protests. It is simply unnerving to read defenders of Leonen, who are almost always critics of the Marcoses and President Rodrigo Duterte, to assault the motives behind the impeachment, label them as Marcosian in character and progeny, and dismiss the case as a mere nuisance.

Obviously, the impeachment complaint is related to the Marcos-Robredo electoral controversy in relation to the 2016 vice-presidential elections. As I implied in a previous column, only the naïve and clueless will buy the argument that this has nothing to do with the protest. But what is patently inconsistent is for people who rail against the protracted case against Sen. Leila de Lima and treat it as a miscarriage of justice, but ignore, dismiss and even rationalize the delay in the disposition of the protest filed by former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. against Vice President Maria Leonor Robredo.