Minister of Justice Chen Ding-nan (陳定南) and the ministry's director of judicial training Lin Hui-huang (林輝煌) will join today's debate at the Constitutional Court at the Judicial Yuan building on whether the March 19 Shooting Truth Investigation Special Committee Statute (三一九槍擊事件真相調查特別委員會條例) is constitutional.
The debate follows an application for an interpretation by the grand justices filed by 93 Democratic Progressive Party and Taiwan Solidarity Union lawmakers on Sept. 15.
Their hope is that the grand justices will decide that the statute is unconstitutional and that the March 19 Shooting Truth Investigation Special Committee should be suspended immediately.
A temporary injunction request against the committee was also filed along with the application.
For the debate, grand justices have invited five representatives acting for the applicants, five lawmakers, three Control Yuan members, two officials from the Ministry of Justice, two from the Ministry of the Interior and two from the Judges' Association.
The Council of Grand Justices say this will be the first of two debates this week on the issue. The other debate will be held on Friday.
The grand justices held a debate over the issue on Oct. 14 but no further decision on the statute had been made as of press time yesterday.
For the debate today, the Judicial Yuan has prepared 136 seats for the public and the press.
A Judicial Yuan spokesman said that those wishing to study the debate process are welcome to line up with a photo ID at 8:20am to try to get a seat.
Those who get seats will trade their photo ID for an admission ID.
The debate will begin at 9am. No electric devices are allowed inside the Constitutional Court.
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