TAIPEI — Taiwan's opposition lawmakers rejected on Friday calls to reconsider a bill that President Lai Ching-te's party and legal experts warn is "unconstitutional" and a threat to the self-ruled island's democracy.

The Kuomintang and Taiwan People's Party, which control parliament, voted in December to amend the Constitutional Court Procedure Act, raising the threshold for hearing and deciding cases.

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