“Under a regime that takes pride in treason, tyranny, mass murder and plunder, the legal standards are degraded to the level of murderers and the standard of learning is also demeaned when Marxism or communism is merely equated to terrorism.”
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Anti-Terror Council’s ‘undue delegation of power’ questioned
Progressives hold protest action outside the Supreme Court last Feb. 2, 2021 (Photo by Carlo Manalansan / Bulatlat)
Justice Edgardo Delos Santos questioned the “undue delegation of power” provided to the council, saying that the law is silent on how it will arrive at the conclusion in designating persons or groups as terrorists. By JONAS ALPASAN
MANILA – In today’s oral arguments on the Anti-Terror Act, the Supreme Court questioned what appeared to be “undue delegation of power” given to the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC).
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There is another uphill battle the Supreme Court is fighting: its backlog of cases. If the high court has a caseload of nearly 15,000 cases and the en banc and its divisions are only able to dispose of 105 and 923 cases a year, respectively, based on the court’s own disclosures in 2016, how are they expected to attend to them all?
It’s the high court’s biggest administrative headache, and the pressure is growing on the justices to get a handle of it.
Romulo Macalintal
In a statement, Robredo’s lawyer Romulo Macalintal noted the “dispositive portion” of a decision was the final order or judgment by the court.
“Its dispositive portion clearly and unequivocally stated that the PET ‘dismisses the Election Protest by Protestant Ferdinand Bongbong R. Marcos, Jr. for lack of merit,’” Macalintal said.
The Supreme Court, acting as PET, which released on Tuesday a full copy of its ruling, had dismissed the case because Marcos was not able to justify an annulment of elections in the three Mindanao provinces Lanao del Sur, Basilan, and Maguindanao which was his third cause of action in his poll protest.
Published April 20, 2021, 6:36 PM
Former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong“ Marcos’ “sweeping allegations” of electoral fraud during the 2016 vice presidential polls have always been “baseless and unfounded” as proven by the decision of the Supreme Court, Vice President Leni Robredo’s spokesperson said on Tuesday, April 20.
Atty. Ibarra “Barry” Gutierrez (Barry Gutierrez Facebook page)
The SC, acting as Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), released a copy of the full decision, which said that Robredo would have won even if they annul the election results in Lanao del Sur, Basilan, and Maguindanao, the three provinces that Marcos wanted to be recounted.
The PET said the vice president would have still led by as much as 15,130 votes even without the votes from the three provinces in Mindanao.