MANILA, Philippines—Law deans and professors from across the Philippines called for dismissal of the impeachment case filed against Supreme Court Associate Marvic Leonen as they described the complaint “unsubstantiated and groundless.”
The group expressed their support for Leonen, himself a former dean of the University of the Philippine College of Law, and said that the case was an attempt to remove a Supreme Court justice who, the group said, was against the “ambitions of a privileged few.”
“The impeachment complaint filed against him last December 7 2020, with its unsubstantiated and groundless allegations, should be dismissed for utter lack of merit,” said the group i…
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