Lawyer's Mumbo Jumbo

 

PHRASE: Void ab initio

MEANING: In law, "Void ab initio" is a Latin term meaning "void from the beginning" or "invalid from the get-go." Null and void since inception.

In legal contexts, it signifies that a contract, agreement, or, in today's current news and events, the impeachment complaints against Inday Sara are flawed because their authors have not followed the specific details and technicalities. 

Others said some important facets were not followed to the letter. from the moment it was created, so they treat it as if it never existed. 

Void ab initio further means that a void act (the impeachment complaints) cannot be rectified to become enforceable because it is deemed as though it never occurred.

They are declared null and void from day one because of the absence of some important and essential requisites.

EXAMPLE: Chiz Escudero said the Articles of Impeachment, besides being barred, are also constitutionally infirm and therefore null and void ab initio.

As an outsider looking in ... I have some questions I need to ask. 

1. The only people I heard saying the articles of impeachment are void ab initio are the Senate President, Chiz Escudero, Senator Rodante Marcoleta, and Alan Peter Cayetano. 

Who the heck is in a position to judge that the case is void ab initio? Was it SC? And why are only these three senators in the privy to know they are void and doomed from the start?

2.  Why is it that the House of Representatives was caught off guard ... and they don't have any clue that the colossal task they have prepared for six months will just go down the drain and be thrashed null and void?

Do they have any advisers monitoring their every move to ensure that everything is in order and all details were meticulously scrutinized?

3. Are these now the signs of the times? If you are an influential and powerful politician ... with the new ruling, will it give them more courage to do more illegal hanky panky, knowing they can hide from technicalities and be saved from eternal damnation ... and fire and the brimstone?

4. And will it give them solace that they can do anything they want because friends from high places ... and an army of trolls will come to their rescue?

5. Where is accountability placed in this current political drama? Will it just be relegated to the tail end of Maslow's hierarchy of priorities ... and technicalities will reign supreme and become the number one consideration