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Philippine court issues arrest warrant for VP Duterte
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A Quezon City court issued an arrest warrant for Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte on grave threats charges, stemming from a briefing where she claimed to have hired a hit man to kill President Marcos, his wife, and a cousin if she were killed first. Justice Department spokesman Polo Martinez confirmed the court rejected a motion to defer the warrant, though a conviction would carry only up to six months in jail.
Legal experts say Duterte is unlikely to actually be taken into custody, since her lawyers can quickly file for bail without her needing to appear. The same alleged threat is a central element of her ongoing Senate impeachment trial, now in its ninth week, where conviction would remove her from office and end her 2028 presidential ambitions. Her legal team says she has 'no intention of evading the law.'
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An arrest warrant that everyone expects to be resolved by paperwork before dinner tells you something about how this system actually works for the powerful. Six months in jail for threatening to have the president assassinated is a light sentence by any measure, and nobody involved seems to think even that is coming. The real verdict here will be decided in the Senate, not the jail cell, which is exactly how the vice president's lawyers seem to prefer it.
