WATCH: Disbarred Gadon Files Disbarment Case Versus VP Sara

Anti-poverty czar Larry Gadon urged the Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday, Nov. 27, to disbar Vice President Sara Duterte over her expletives and threats directed against the Marcos couple and Romualdez.

Gadon, a disbarred lawyer himself, said the SC should initiate a “motu proprio proceeding of disbarment” against Duterte.

He noted that Duterte’s remarks, which were issued in a live press conference, had been seen by millions of Filipinos, reported on television, radio and newspapers “and now have become general public knowledge that the Court may take judicial notice.”

“Such statements coming from the second highest official of the land… are undoubtedly illegal, immoral and condemnable. As a lawyer herself, she should be disbarred,” Gadon said.

Gadon said disbarment proceedings against Duterte will test the SC’s fairness, noting that the high tribunal did not disbar nor suspend the Vice President when she was then Davao City mayor and punched a sheriff enforcing a court order to dismantle an informal settlers’ community.

Gadon cited his own disbarment last year when he was penalized over his profanities against journalist Raissa Robles. Gadon was disbarred in 2023 for using “misogynistic, sexist, abusive and repeated intemperate language.”

“If the Supreme Court has applied it wrongfully in the circumstances of Atty. Larry Gadon, there is no reason that the Supreme Court can not apply it rightfully to Sara Z Duterte-Carpio,” Gadon added.

In a separate interview, Gadon said he will file impeachment cases against all justices of the SC should the Court fail to act on Duterte’s disbarment.