NANTOU, Taiwan -- Opposition parties in Taiwan are bombarding the judiciary with criticism just as major rulings on legislative powers and the death penalty loom, raising concerns among legal experts about politicization of the law.
The Kuomintang (KMT) and its smaller scandal-plagued ally, the Taiwan People's Party, have aimed unusually pointed attacks at judges in recent weeks, claiming that Constitutional Court justices are lackeys of President Lai Ching-te's Democratic Progressive Party administration. Opposition politicians have gone so far as to openly claim that the senior judges have "lost their independent will" and become government "thugs" to the "humiliation of the nation."
