It is both embarrassing and astonishing to see Filipino lawyers petitioning for United Nations intervention in our national affairs on account of President Rodrigo Duterte’s statements against Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno, which they deem as threats to lawyers and judges.

Why, in a nation under the rule of law, would presumably sane lawyers and lawyers groups file a formal request seeking international intervention in our affairs? Not since the Partido Federalista of Trinidad Pardo de Tavera petitioned for the conversion of the Philippines into a state of the American union has this country seen an action more stupid and shameful.

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