Supreme Court The Supreme Court (SC) is expected to terminate its online oral arguments on Monday, May 17, on the 37 petitions challenging the constitutionality of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA). Thereafter, it will go into its traditional month-long decision-writing recess and will resume ses
Published May 11, 2021, 6:52 PM
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The implementation of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) will not result in violations of human rights enshrined in the Constitution, government lawyers told the Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday afternoon, May 11.
On the seventh session of oral arguments on 37 petitions challenging the constitutionality of ATA, lawyers from the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) said that the government has adopted measures for an efficient enforcement of the law.
Fears of the petitioners and the public on human rights violations were aired by Associate Justices Henri Jean Paul B. Inting and Amy C. Lazaro Javier during their interpellations of OSG lawyers.
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The Supreme Court (SC) is set to resume on Tuesday, May 4, its online oral arguments on 37 petitions against the constitutionality of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020, the law blamed by some sectors as behind the “red-tagging” and profiling of several persons and groups,
Published April 27, 2021, 6:51 PM
Solicitor General Jose C. Calida asked the Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday, April 27, to dismiss all the 37 petitions that challenged the constitutionality of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020.
During the online oral arguments, Calida said the enactment of ATA is political in nature that cannot be delved into by the courts, there are supervening events that warrant the dismissal of the petitions, and petitioners do not have legal standing to challenge the law.
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Calida told the SC that ATA “is not an instrument of oppression and neither is it a tool to suppress the vibrance of our democracy.”
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In an advisory, the SC said that only the justices, two amici curiae (friends of the court), three lawyers each from the 37 petitioners, and seven lawyers from the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) will be allowed to participate through the Zoom platform.
Only the SC’s public information office (PIO) was allowed “to do continuous live streaming of the oral arguments via YouTube.” The streaming, however, is limited to an audio feed.
Last April 8, Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo announced the resumption of oral arguments on ATA two weeks after the lifting of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in the National Capital Region and the four adjacent provinces.