Falcis: Constitution should not be read ‘in bits and pieces’ on ICC warrant

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:10]Well, the problem with the arguments of Senator Bato's lawyers and with all due respect again to my good friend Attorney Jimmy, they are just focusing on a specific clause in the Bill of Rights, which is that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, property without due process of law.

[00:00:27]Plus, no warrant of arrest shall issue except by a judge. See Dean Mel, he argues that a judge can be local or international. So I I go with the sergeant's arguments, which is that you cannot read the Constitution in isolation, in bits and pieces. I'm talking about the law school interpretation, tool of interpretation.

[00:00:48]You cannot isolate >> I see. provisions. You have to read the Constitution as a whole.

[00:00:59]warrant should issue from a local judge.

[00:01:04]We have to read that in relation with the international law is part of the law of the land. And we have to remember that crimes against humanity is a crime against all states. It's a a universal jurisdiction. That was not going to happen now. Chief architect of the president. How do we relate all of that?

[00:01:21]If the president thinks that I have to cooperate with the international community because crimes against humanity is so fundamental and there's another court or tribunal already investigating a situation that happened here in the Philippines. That is his sole prerogative.