Demonstrators gathered on Jinan Road, in front of the Legislative Yuan, to demonstrate the KMT and TPP’s efforts to freeze the Constitutional Court today. The rally started at 6:30 PM...
“Do legislators have the right to paralyze the Constitutional Court?” the former Constitutional Court justice Huang Hong-Sia asked the protestors at Peace Memorial Park on 17th October. To her rhetorical question, her audience chanted “No!”...
A demonstration was held today on Jinan Road in front of the Legislative Yuan against the pan-Blue camp’s efforts to freeze the Constitutional Court. According to organizers, by shortly before 8 PM, over 1,000 were in attendance...
Several hundred laywers, along with two thousand supporters protested over the weekend in Taipei against a legislative proposal by KMT legislator Weng Hsiao-ling. In the wake of the protest, further demonstrations are planned by the Judicial Reform Foundation and a number of civil society groups...
Appointments to the Constitutional Court are likely to be fought between the pan-Blue camp and DPP in the coming months. Namely, the terms of seven of the fifteen justices are set to end in October...
Bluebird Movement demonstrations have continued to take place outside of the legislature. Even if demonstrations are not as large as in May and June, in July, this has occurred on several occasions...
The KMT and TPP likely plan to use their newly acquired legislative powers going forward to go after political opponents, with an investigative committee set up to investigate the approval of Mirror TV for broadcast. In particular, the pan-Blue camp has long accused the National Communications Commission of exercising undue influence in allowing Mirror TV to obtain a broadcast license. Mirror TV is the first television network approved for broadcast in a decade and it is generally seen as more pan-Green in its political leanings...
A legal proposal from KMT legislator Weng Hsiao-ling would change the number of justices on the Constitutional Court required for the court to make decisions. The proposal has the clear aim of preventing the Constitutional Court from functioning at a time in which the expansion of legislative powers sought by the KMT is under review, with regard to its constitutionality. Though the proposal from Weng has not proceeded further in the legislative process as of yet, it is to be seen if the idea recurs from the KMT going forward...
