[Just Saying] Marcos’ action and court intervention in the Duterte arrest

Crimes against humanity, International Criminal Court (ICC), Interpol, state parties, custodial state, global cooperation: these terms all connote some relation to foreign affairs. In turn, of the three great branches of government, it is to the executive that foreign affairs are principally entrusted. As the Supreme Court consistently stated, the President is the sole organ of foreign relations, the chief architect of foreign policy — the country’s representative in  international affairs.