THE ’ President’s Advisory Council denounced former undersecretary and anti-insurgency task force spokesperson Lorraine Badoy for threatening Manila Regional Trial Court Judge Marlo Magdoza-Malagar.

The judge earned Badoy’s ire after dismissing the bid of the government to declare the Communist Party of the Philippines and New People’s Army as terrorist groups.

In a statement, UP-PAC expressed support for Magdoza-Malagar and her husband, UP-Cebu Chancellor Leo Malgar.

“This is not the first time—nor, we believe, will it be the last—that Ms. Badoy has overstepped the bounds of human decency with her rabid and reckless assaults on free speech, human rights, and now, the judicial process itself, one of our last democratic recourses,” UP-PAC, composed of the President, the Vice Presidents and the Secretary of the university, the Chancellors of the eight UP constituent units, the Director of the UP Philippine General Hospital, and the Executive Director of the UP Bonifacio Global City campus, said.

“While she may seek to evade legal action by resorting to seemingly hypothetical questions in her posts, the malice and moral depravity in her intent is evident, particularly her chilling statement about killing ‘this judge,’ knowing full well that she is associated with the country’s military and intelligence establishment,” it added.

In a now-deleted social media post, Badoy asked people to be lenient with her if she kills the judge.

In a subsequent post, she also tagged the UP-Cebu Chancellor as member of the CPP-NPA-NDF.

Badoy was a spokesperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict in the previous administration.

UP-PAC said that Badoy’s personal threats against judges and academic leaders “are unacceptable.”

“The University of the Philippines stands by its commitment to our people’s democratic rights and the rule of law. Personal threats and attacks against our judges and academic leaders are unacceptable in a free society, and their perpetrators should be held accountable, legally and morally, for any consequences of their actions,” it added.

In a separate statement, law professors of the Far Eastern University Institute of Law said that attacks against, and red-tagging of Malagar are “disturbing.”

“We stand for the rule of law, and condemn the unfounded and vicious personal attacks against Judge Magdoza-Malagar. As our colleague in the Institute of Law, we are aware of the unblemished and sterling record of Judge Magdoza-Malagar,” they said.

The POST tried to get a statement from Badoy but she has yet to respond.