Constitutional Court Dismisses Impeachment Against Prime Minister Han; Will Yoon’s Charges Be Dismissed Next?
The impeachment charges against Han have been dropped which has caused him to be reinstated as the interim President:
The Constitutional Court dismissed the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Monday, reinstating him as acting president in the ongoing turmoil over suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol’s brief imposition of martial law.
Han’s impeachment was dismissed in a 5-1 vote by the court’s eight justices. Two justices voted to reject the impeachment motion entirely.
The ruling came three months after the National Assembly impeached the prime minister and then acting president over his alleged role in Yoon’s Dec. 3 declaration of martial law, among other reasons.
Four of the five justices who voted to dismiss Han’s impeachment acknowledged there were violations of the Constitution and the law in his decision to defer the appointment of additional justices to the court, but noted it did not justify his removal from office.
As the only justice to uphold the impeachment, however, Justice Chung Kye-sun said the violations were “serious” enough to warrant his dismissal.
You can read more at the link, but I think people should not read too much into this dismissal as it relates to impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol. None of the justices believed that Han had anything to do with the martial law declaration:
The six justices who voted to either dismiss or uphold the impeachment said there was no evidence to back the National Assembly’s accusations that Han took proactive action to give legitimacy to Yoon’s martial law bid, such as by convening a Cabinet meeting ahead of its declaration.
For Yoon to get his charges dismissed he needed to convince the judges that his martial law declaration did not violate the ROK constitution and laws which is very different charges than what Han was facing. With Han impeachment decision now completed it will be interesting to see if the Constitutional Court releases their decision on Yoon at the end of the week.
Spreading false information again, MAGA GI?
Yoon’s claim is that he DID NOT DECLARE MARTIAL LAW. His entire defense was based on his claim that it was not a martial law. He claimed it was a hoax to scare the opposition party into shaping up (rubber stamping his proposed bills). He reasoned that how could you call this martial law when it only lasted a few hours? Because he says, he planned it so that it would be canceled easily.
Stop with this disinformation, it’s getting tiresome.
The only thing tiresome is…
MAGA Winning!
And you are worried sick that Korea First will come to Korea.
And when it does, you will take to the streets.
And the KNP has medicine for that.
For Yoon to get his charges dismissed he needed to convince the judges that his martial law declaration did not violate the ROK constitution and laws which is very different charges than what Han was facing
Nope.
For Yoon to return to power,
1) The judges have to be convinced that although what he did violated the Constitution, it isn’t serious enough to warrant removing him from power.
2) They also have to be convinced that Yoon will not resort to what he did during the night of December 3rd during the remaining two years of his term.
3) Finally the judges have to be convinced that despite what Yoon did, he has not lose the trust of the public and most Koreans won’t mind seeing him back in power.
The first point could go both ways.
The second point, we are talking about a guy who once claimed that “he will take responsibility and follow the law” but acted the exact opposite.
The third point, we have the Setnaffarians claiming that most Koreans do not support impeachment and trying their best to support their claims.
However, a lot of Koreans on both sides of the political sprectrum do not like Yoon and the martial law stunt was pretty much the last straw.
So, for Yoon, it’s a tall order.
And yes as claimed by KM, @GIKorea is trying to spread misinformation and hoping Yoon will be returned to power.