Defenders made a way as the members of the University of the Philippines College of Law faculty defended their former dean, Associate Justice Marvic Leonen of the Supreme Court, against an exclusion offer they considered uncorroborated. In order to throw the impeachment lawsuit and prioritizing more meaningful work for legislators the law professors advised the members of the House of …

After violent protests erupted earlier this week against the legislation, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo defended his flagship on job creation law. In order to provide jobs for its young population and those who were unemployed because of the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the nation, Jokowi said, needed the sweeping “omnibus” law. If they disagreed with its substance, …

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha first time ever defended a land sale by his father publicly, insisting that it did not favour anyone after the opposition raised the issue during the first day of the censure debate against the government. Yutthapong Charassathian, a Pheu Thai Party MP for Maha Sarakham, claimed that the land which was sold by Gen Prayut’s father …