Nevertheless, Duterte’s allies in the Senate stripped Leila of her committee leadership. The senator who took over her chairmanship, Richard Gordon, promptly closed the investigation into Duterte’s drug war, as well as the alleged killings years earlier in Davao.25 In a further act of retaliation, the House of Representatives, dominated by Duterte allies, launched an investigation into Leila’s supposed role in the illegal drug trade within the national penitentiary in Muntinlupa; the allegation was that Leila had received drug
