THE Supreme Court has declared illegal and unconstitutional the “watchlist order” powers used by former justice secretary and now Sen. Leila de Lima, when she halted the departure of former president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo at Manila airport in November 2011.

The tribunal voted unanimously to void the watchlist scheme of the Department of Justice (DoJ), ruling that the government had no power to stop people from flying out of the country without a court order.

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