Read: Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling outlawing ‘pork’

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As early as 2013, the Supreme Court already ruled that ‘pork’ includes not just post-legislation acts but also “all informal practices of similar import and effect, which the Court similarly deems to be acts of grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction.”