Government of laws (and men) 

 The ouster of Chief Justice Sereno by way of a Quo Warranto proceeding, the revocation of the grant of amnesty to Senator Trillanes and its elevation to the Supreme Court—these and other current or recent controversies call to mind the idea that “great cases make bad law,” a phrase made famous by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. This is what the father of the School of Legal Realism wrote in his dissenting opinion in Northern Securities Co. vs. United States (1904): Read more...