MANILA, Philippines ? The Supreme Court has ordered Solicitor-General Agnes Devanadera, the acting justice secretary, to submit on Monday President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo?s report to Congress regarding her imposition of martial law in Maguindanao.

In an order issued Friday by clerk of court Luisa Villarama with authority from Chief Justice Reynato Puno, the court also asked for the President?s report as well as the executive branch?s other findings related to the emergency.

?[The] Office of the Solicitor General is hereby directed to submit to the Court not later than Monday, Dec. 14, 2009, without any extension, the Report of the President to Congress and all documents submitted by the Executive Department relative to the ongoing deliberations of Congress in connection with the declaration of martial in Maguindanao,? the order read.

The order, dated December 11, also called for the consolidation of the petitions against martial law in Maguindanao filed by lawyers Christian Monsod and Carlos Medina on Thursday with similar petitions filed earlier.

Among those who filed petitions against Proclamation No. 1959 were former Senate President Jovito Salonga, the Natioal Union of People?s Lawyers, Maguindanao Representative Didagen Dilangalen, Joseph Nelson Loyola, and lawyer Sigfrid Fortun, a legal counsel of the Ampatuan family.

Members of the clan and their followers were implicated in the November 23 massacre of 57 people in Maguindanao as well as an alleged rebellion that the government has claimed as basis for the imposition of martial law in Maguindanao.

Last Thursday, the Supreme Court ordered Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita and other respondents in the petitions against martial law to comment on the complaints.

Lawyer Gleo Guerra, deputy spokesman of the Supreme Court, told reporters that the Supreme Court would decide whether to call for oral arguments on the petitions after hearing from the executive branch.