Practice question
The President invokes calling out to assist police during sustained lawless violence. In a proper challenge, government lawyers say that the President's broad discretion makes any judicial inquiry into grave abuse constitutionally impossible. The challenger, in turn, says a court must replace the President's operational preferences whenever another tactic appears better. Which statement best reflects IBP?
- The deployment is entirely beyond constitutional judicial review
- Courts always substitute their tactical preference
- Congress alone may exercise any review
- Broad executive discretion does not exclude grave-abuse review, but review is not ordinary substitution of tactical judgment
- Any disagreement about tactics proves grave abuse
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article VII, Section 18: https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
- Integrated Bar of the Philippines v. Zamora, G.R. No. 141284, August 15, 2000, main decision: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/36338
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