When then-Solicitor General Noel Francisco pressed the court to intervene in the matter in late 2018 so that the administration could enforce the ban, he leaned in to the idea that the military ...

“I don’t know that anything has happened since then that would make the Supreme Court less likely to do that again,” he said. When then-Solicitor General Noel Francisco pressed the court to intervene ...

Lian Buan is a senior investigative reporter, and minder of Rappler's justice, human rights and crime cluster. She specializes in legal reporting, looking at the gaps of the justice system ...