00:00Government's top lawyer and Attorney General Menardo Guevara has maintained all along since
00:05his stint as Justice Secretary in the Duterte administration that the ICC has no jurisdiction
00:11to put to trial his former boss on alleged EJKs in his brutal and bloody war on illegal
00:17drugs.
00:18Hence, he has recused himself from representing the government in its response to a writ of
00:23habeas corpus pleading filed by Duterte's kids.
00:27As such, Justice Chief Jesus Crispin Boying Remulia is picking up the slack and will assume
00:32Guevara's responsibilities in the interim.
00:35Remulia also claims the former president's status in his ICC detention and forthcoming
00:40trial is set in stone based on the former president's pronouncements.
