Gyeonggi Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myeong said on the 4th, “Even if you are not subject to criminal punishment, if you violate the Constitution, the National Assembly must impeach it in the name of the people.” .
On this day, Governor Lee posted a post on his SNS and said, “If a judge who must exercise power independently according to the law and conscience violates the law and arbitrarily exercise jurisdiction based on politics or interests, not conscience, maintain order and guarantee human rights The judiciary, which is respected because it is the last bastion of the government, could be a source of human rights violations and order destruction.”
Governor Lee said, “Because impeachment is dismissal and cannot be dismissed after the term of office is over, there is a high possibility that he will be dismissed from the impeachment trial of the Constitutional Court after the decision of impeachment Some opinions oppose impeachment, which is not effective because the decision to impeach a judge that is likely to end may end at the stage of political action. However, even if the impeachment trial is dismissed, the decision to impeach the impeachment itself may be grounds for refusal to register an attorney. It’s not that it’s not without profit.”
Governor Lee continued, “It will also help to protect and strengthen the trust of the most good judges and the authority of the judiciary from a few deviant judges,” said Governor Lee. “For the arbitrary exercise of jurisdiction that abuses jurisdiction independence, national surveillance and judgment according to the constitution It’s worth noting that it’s working at any time,” he said.
Governor Lee emphasized, “Guarantee of jurisdiction independence should not be guaranteed of abuse of judicial power,” and “I hope this impeachment of judges by the National Assembly will become a solid foundation for true judicial independence.”
On the other hand, Judge Im Seong-geun (57, 17th Judicial Research and Training Institute) is a person who was involved in the case of’Justice Nongdan’, such as unfairly intervening in the ‘7-hour trial of the Sewol ferry’, not in charge of the Park Geun-hye government-Yang Seung-tae as chief of the Supreme Court. Judge Im was acquitted of the allegations in the first trial judgment, but the judgment stated that the act was unconstitutional. Judge Lim’s term is until the end of this month.
The ballot on the impeachment prosecution against Judge Im Seong-geun is scheduled to be held by anonymous ballot at the plenary session of the National Assembly that begins at 2 pm on the same day. In addition, the Democratic Party is in fact in favor of the impeachment of Judge Im as a party argument, and it is the first time in the history of the constitution that the impeachment bill for judges is about to pass.