SC orders Badoy to comment on indirect contempt petition

The Supreme Court has ordered former National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) spokesperson Lorraine Badoy to comment on the petition seeking to declare her guilty of indirect contempt of court.

In a notice, the high court required Badoy to comment on the petition within a non-extendible period of 15 days from notice.

The petition, filed by a lawyer’s group earlier this month, stemmed from Badoy's "contumacious" series of social media posts "aimed to assault and humiliate" Manila Regional Trial Court Presiding Judge Marlo A. Magdoza-Malagar.

Among the petitioners were Atty. Rico Domingo, Dean Antonio Gabriel La Vina, Soledad Deriquito-Mawis, Dean Anna Maria D. Abad, Dean Rodel A. Taton, Atty. Artemio Calumpong, Atty. Christiane Grace Salonga, Atty, Ray Paolo J. Santiago, and Atyy. Ayn Ruth Tolentino-Azarcon.

Badoy had criticized Malagar for her decision to dismiss the Department of Justice's proscription case seeking to declare the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People’s Army as terrorist groups.

The SC previously warned that provoking violence against judges and their families through social media and other means would be considered "contempt."

GMA News Online has reached out to Badoy for comment but has yet to receive a response as of posting time. —Joahna Lei Casilao/KBK, GMA News