Supreme Court to Deliberate on Election Law Violation Case Involving Presidential Candidate Lee Jae-myung
Here is where the real Korean Presidential election will happen. If the Supreme Court makes a ruling on this before the election it could possibly prevent the front runner Lee Jae-myung from becoming President:
The Supreme Court said Tuesday its full bench will deliberate on former Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung’s election law violation case after initially assigning it to a smaller panel.
The decision came after prosecutors appealed an appeals court ruling last month that acquitted Lee of lying as a presidential candidate during the 2022 election and overturned a lower court’s sentence of a suspended prison term.
The Supreme Court had first assigned the case to a four-member bench earlier in the day, but Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae decided on the full bench, consisting of 12 other justices, to oversee the case.
Cho reportedly made the decision after considering opinions from the court’s justices.
Court Justice Roh Tae-ak, however, requested to be withdrawn from the case due to potential conflict of interest as he doubles as the head of the National Election Commission.
The case has posed as a major legal hurdle for Lee, who is considered the front-runner for the upcoming June 3 presidential election.
You can read more at the link, but out of all the things Lee Jae-myung has been accused of his conviction of lying to the media has to be flimsiest. The conviction was overturned by an appeals court and is now being looked at by the Supreme Court.
Lawfare seems to be the way forward, or really rather backwards.
They want everyone to be a polite serf.
And they want a culture like Brazil where their top judge overrules President and Legislative.