was filed Wednesday by Rudolf Jurado, President Rodrigo Duterte's former government corporate counsel.The petition of the Constitution framers focuses on what it says is the unconstitutional powers of the anti-terror council , which is an executive body to be headed by the executive secretary and the national security adviser.
Note that the council's designation is a separate process from the proscription or the declaration of a court. The petition said there is no mechanism under the law that provides for a judicial scrutiny of the council's designation process. It is similar to the administration's compilation of drug lists, which provide no process for those included to take their names off.
One of the petitioners, jesuit priest Alejo, is facing a complaint on conspiracy to commit sedition over the Bikoy videos, and is awaiting resolution by the Department of Justice on charges he allegedly kidnapped a businesswoman
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