MANILA, June 14 -- A constitutional law professor said senator-judges in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Z. Duterte should be impartial.

Lawyer Jennifer Arlene Reyes said members of the impeachment court must remember that they are serving the interests of the Filipino people, not of an ally or a partymate.

"Since the constitution expressly provides that they, as the sole judges of the impeachment case, must try and decide this proceeding, then we cannot do anything but to hope that they will let their conscience and political will [prevail] and not their biases and alliances," she said at the Saturday News Forum in Quezon City. "To put it bluntly, dapat mahiya sila sa taong bayan. Dapat ang pa-iralin nila ay ang loyalty ni...