The KMT Legislative Caucus says, it will file charges today against 5
Constitutional Court justices who ruled Friday to strike down legislation
that effectively paralyzed the court.

They say they will pursue charges against 5 of the 8 sitting justices...
while the other 3 did not side with the majority in revoking the amendments.
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The KMT caucus says, the decision to file charges is in an attempt to
preserve Taiwan's "precarious judicial independence" and to ensure that the
court makes judgements in accordance with the law.

Last December, the KMT/TPP-controlled legislature passed amendments to laws
governing the constitutional court...

stipulating that it needed at least 10 out of 15 justices sitting on the
court in order to hear any case.

That's after 7 justices stepped down in October.

Since then, the legislature has refused all 14 of President Lai Ching-te's
nominees to fill those vacancies.

On Friday, 5 of the sitting justices ruled that those amendments lacked
"supporting measures" and "violated the constitutional principle of
separation of powers."

The ruling noted that the amendments should thus be voided, as deliberation
leading to the legislation was obviously defective.