The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday, July 14, consolidated the four other petitions filed recently with the first four cases lodged against the alleged unconstitutionality of Republic Act No. 11479, the Anti-Terror Act of 2020.
At the same time, the SC also required the Office of the President, several agencies under the Executive Department, and both Houses of Congress to comment on the last four petitions, both on the merits of the petitions, and on the pleas for a temporary restraining order to stop the enforcement of RA 11479 starting July 19.
It was reported that the Office of the Solicitor General which will file the comments for the Office of the President and the agencies under the executive branch has received the SC resolution requiring comment on the first four cases. But it was not known if the OSG would file a motion for extension of time to file the comment in view of the filing of the four other cases.
The first four cases were filed by the group of lawyer Howard Calleja and former education secretary Armin Luistro, Rep. Edcel C. Lagman, the group of Law Dean Mel Sta. Maria and several professors of the Far Eastern University , and the Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives led by Bayan Muna Party-List Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate.
The last four cases filed recently were those of the former head of the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel Rudolph Philip B. Jurado, the group of former members of the 1986 Constitutional Commission Christian S. Monsod and Felicitas A. Aquino and their group from the Ateneo Human Rights Center, two labor groups represented by the Center for Trade Union and Human Rights and the Pro-Labor Legal Assistance Center , and the Party-List organization Sanlakas.
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