In the Philippines, a court has issued an arrest warrant for sitting Vice President Sara Duterte, charging her with threatening President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and members of his family — a moment that transforms a prolonged political rivalry into a formal criminal matter. What had been a contest of factions and public grievances has now entered the domain of law, raising ancient questions about whether institutions can hold even those who inhabit their highest offices. The warrant does not yet determine guilt, but it marks a threshold: the point at which political conflict becomes a test of wh