The verdict on former president Joseph Estrada’s plunder case will be decided by the court today. (Update: Estrada was found guilty beyond reasonable doubt and has been sentenced to life imprisonment.) My father’s Monday column reiterates the official consensus over the dining table at home:

…an acquittal is out of the question. I don’t think the courts will risk overturning the basis for this administration’s emergence with Edsa 2 in 2001.

Unlike Edsa 1 that led to a revolutionary government, Edsa 2 supposedly forced a constitutional change as a result of gross corruption that stirred the nation into another uprising.

When he stepped down from Malacañang, then president Estrada was deemed resigned making the assumption of president Arroyo as president legal under the present constitution.

If the court acquits Erap, what then can we make of Edsa 2 and the supposed constitutional change that it effected?

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