MALACAÑANG on Wednesday downplayed as “rhetorical” President Rodrigo Duterte’s threat to declare Martial Law, as Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno refused to be drawn into a word war with the Chief Executive.

Duterte on Tuesday lashed out at Sereno for questioning his shame campaign against “narco-officials” after the Chief Justice demanded that warrants of arrest be issued first before judges linked by the President to illegal drugs surrender to authorities.

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