She also called Judge Magdoza-Malagar “unprincipled,” and a “friend of [CPP-NPA-NDF],” and her recent judgment dismissing the Department of Justice’s proscription case to declare the CPP and NPA a terrorist group a “judgment straight from the bowels of communist hell.”
“Except for the usual statement of condemnation and call to action every time a member of the Bench has fallen in the line of duty, we, members of the court, have often kept silent whenever our decisions came under attack. We have chosen to let our decisions speak on our behalf, aware that judicial remedies are available for the parties affected,” Hukom Inc. said on Saturday .
The group said that Badoy’s statements cannot just be accepted as “normal and ordinary,” as they have a “chilling effect on the exercise of our judicial functions and the lasting damage they cause to our institution.”Meanwhile, the Philippine Judges Association on Monday called the attack on Judge Magdoza-Malagar “an assault on democracy.”
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)