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Senators Alan Peter Cayetano, Pia Cayetano, Imee Marcos, Robin Padilla, and Rodante Marcoleta, push through with their scheduled Blue Ribbon Committee hearing featuring 18 Marines and their legal counsel as resource persons at the Senate plenary hall in Pasay City on June 4, 2026. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News

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Jervis Manahan

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<div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/178073303910420260604-senate-cayetano-bloc-blue-ribbon-MT-1.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960" alt="Senators Alan Peter Cayetano, Pia Cayetano, Imee Marcos, Robin Padilla, and Rodante Marcoleta, push through with their scheduled Blue Ribbon Committee hearing featuring 18 Marines and their legal counsel as resource persons at the Senate plenary hall in Pasay City on June 4, 2026. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News"/>Senators Alan Peter Cayetano, Pia Cayetano, Imee Marcos, Robin Padilla, and Rodante Marcoleta, push through with their scheduled Blue Ribbon Committee hearing featuring 18 Marines and their legal counsel as resource persons at the Senate plenary hall in Pasay City on June 4, 2026. Maria Tan, ABS-CBN News</div>MANILA -- A group of &quot;angry&quot; lawyers are mulling to file usurpation of authority complaints against Senators Pia Cayetano and Rodante Marcoleta, for pushing a hearing at the Senate last Thursday contrary to the orders of the new leadership.Public interest lawyer Atty Dino de Leon says he and other lawyers are preparing the complaints.&quot;I am in the process of crafting together with several volunteer lawyers, who we call our group angry lawyers,&quot; he said.&quot;Mga batang abugado na galit na sa pambababoy sa ating sistema, hindi ko kaya lahat ito mag-isa. Mahirap po mag draft ah, mahirap pagandahin ang pleading. May grupo kami who are crafting [complaints],&quot; De Leon added.De Leon said the complaints will be against those who were behind what he called a &quot;fake Blue Ribbon Committee hearing.&quot;Marcoleta and Cayetano have steered the hearing on Thursday, despite pronouncements from Senate President Pro Tempore Sherwin Gatchalian that this is not &quot;official&quot;.<div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/6/4/gatchalian-resource-persons-won-t-be-allowed-to-enter-senate-on-thursday-0948">READ: Cayetano-led hearing tags Sotto, Tulfo in flood control mess</a></div>&quot;They are pretending they have the authority of the Blue Ribbon Committee,&quot; De Leon said.He said they will only back down from filing the complaints if the Cayetano-allied bloc will be able to produce 13 warm bodies at the Senate plenary.&quot;Hindi ko na po ito ifafile Senator Pia kung kaya nyo i-produce ang 13 warm bodies sa plenaryo. Tatahimik na kami,&quot; he said.&quot;Pero hanggang hindi nyo napo-produce yung 13 warm bodies supporting Alan Peter Cayetano and declaring you as Chairperson of the Blue Ribbon Committee, eh usurpation of authority ka. You cannot pretend to be the chair of the Blue Ribbon Committee,&quot; De Leon added.<div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/6/4/battle-of-blue-ribbons-shows-an-upper-house-still-divided-2148">READ: Battle of &#x27;Blue Ribbons&#x27; shows an upper house still divided</a></div>De Leon said they are still finalizing the complaints, but they are considering filing them at the Office of the Ombudsman and at the Senate Ethics Committee.Both Cayetano and Marcoleta are yet to issue statements regarding this matter.

A group of "angry" lawyers are mulling to file usurpation of authority complaints against Senators Pia Cayetano and Rodante Marcoleta, for pushing a hearing at the Senate last Thursday contrary to the orders of the new leadership.

A group of "angry" lawyers are mulling to file usurpation of authority complaints against Senators Pia Cayetano and Rodante Marcoleta, for pushing a hearing at the Senate last Thursday contrary to the orders of the new leadership.

Group of 'angry' lawyers mulling to file usurpation of authority complaints vs. Marcoleta, Pia Cayetano

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Group of 'angry' lawyers mulling to file usurpation of authority complaints vs. Marcoleta, Pia Cayetano

Jervis Manahan,

ABS-CBN News

Published June 06, 2026 04:07 PM PHT

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