(JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN)
“We expect that the time of the petitioners will end this Tuesday,” said Chief Justice Diosdado M. Peralta last Friday, February 19, when interviewed after the conferment on him of the Doctor of Laws,
honoris cause (for the sake of honor) degree by the Tarlac State University in Tarlac City.
“We never expected that a lot of us (SC justices) would like to ask a lot of questions,” Peralta said.
Tuesday’s oral arguments will be the fourth day of legal debates on the petitions against ATA. Only the petitioners have presented their arguments since last February 2.