The legislature scheduled a recorded vote for July 25 to confirm the appointments of Constitutional Court justice nominees.
The decision was made during a plenary session after the Taiwan People's Party (TPP) caucus proposed the review and voting schedule for the confirmations, with no objections from lawmakers present.
The TPP proposed a public hearing on July 3, hearings of the Committee of the Whole Yuan on July 9, 10 and 14, and a vote on July 25.
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Lawmakers of the committee would question the seven nominees.
The nominees were selected by President William Lai (賴清德) on March 21. They include Taiwan High Prosecutors' Office Chief Prosecutor Tsai Chiu-ming (蔡秋明), and Su Su-e (蘇素娥), a Supreme Court judge, who were also nominated as president and vice president of the Judicial Yuan respectively.
The other nominees are: Supreme Court Judge Zheng Chun-hui (鄭純惠), Taiwan High Prosecutors' Office Chief Prosecutor Lin Li-ying (林麗瑩), and law professors Hsiao Wen-sheng (蕭文生), Chen Tsi-yang (陳慈陽) and Chan Chen-jung (詹鎮榮).
The committee review was originally scheduled for April, but the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) sought a reconsideration.
The matter was brought up again last month, but the Democratic Progressive Party said that the KMT's reconsideration "froze" the process and that it could only continue after the reconsideration ended.
There are only eight justices on the 15-seat Constitutional Court after seven completed their terms at the end of October last year and the legislature rejected Lai's replacement nominations.
Constitutional Court Justice Shieh Ming-yan (謝銘洋) is serving as its president.
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