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Taipei, Oct. 21 (CNA) Taiwan's Central Election Commission (CEC) said Friday that its decision to bar COVID-19 patients and their close contacts from going to the polls on Nov. 26 if they are in quarantine does not violate any constitutional principles.

Americans should celebrate the Magna Carta no less than we celebrate our Declaration of Independence or our Constitution.

Judges are entitled to respect when asserting that a law is null and void only when they can back up such assertions with a persuasive explanation of how the law violates the meaning of the Constitution as it was framed and ratified.

Corpus linguistics is an emerging tool in statutory, constitutional interpretation. Corpus linguistics bug is spreading in Sixth Circuit and others. Two recent cases show Sixth Circuit is thought leader in this legal analysis variant, powerful transmission vector.

Last month finally saw some movement on the LGBTQ equality front, as the legislature’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee passed a preliminary review of an amendment that would allow same-sex couples to jointly adopt children. The amendment to the Act for the Judicial Yuan’s Implementation of Constitutional Interpretation No. 748 (司法院釋字第七四八號解釋施行法) still has some way to go before passage and its eventual enactment, with the next phase being cross-p...

The Ministry of the Interior and Ministry of Labor yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to improve the safety of firefighters on duty. The interior ministry’s National Fire Agency joined forces with the labor ministry’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and the Institute of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health to provide further protection for firefighters and take care of their physical and mental health. The MOU was signed by Deputy Minister of the Interior Ch...

Many state and federal statutes provide that when property is used in certain prohibited ways, ownership of the property passes to the government. Often, the statutes allow these forfeitures to be declared in civil proceedings against the property itself, without the normal safeguards of the criminal process. Indeed, if no one claims the property after proper notice, the government’s assertion of ownership can become incontestable without any judicial proceedings at all. Statutes authori...

The heated abortion debate overshadows the more fundamental issue, which is all about judicial interpretation. While originalists have no need to indulge in “verbal smokescreens,” those who take a more dynamic approach to constitutional interpretation cannot survive without them. 

THREE YEARS ON: Deputy Minister of Justice Chen Ming-tang said Taiwan has marriage equality, but ‘it is time for Taiwan to take care of the next generation’By Hsieh Chun-lin and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer

An amendment to grant same-sex couples the right to jointly adopt children passed a preliminary review yesterday at the legislature’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee, bringing the law one step closer to closing an oversight criticized by LGBTQ+ and children’s advocates since the passage of same-sex marriage in 2019. The amendment to Article 20 of the Act for the Judicial Yuan’s Implementation of Constitutional Interpretation No. 748 (司法院釋字第七四八號解釋�...