AS Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, Mahfud Md. is known for his particular trait: taking part in fora debating the decisions of his court. That is what he did all of the past two weeks, exposing and explaining the reasoning and the argumentation that went behind the court's decision that led to Attorney General Hendarman Supandji's resignation.

The case began when former State Secretary Yusril Ihza Mahendra questioned a clause in the Law o