Chu Mi-ae, National Assembly Legislation and Judiciary Committee Chairperson, called for Supreme Court Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae to resign on the 14th.
Chairperson Chu said on Facebook that "Chief Justice Cho cries out for 'judicial independence' under the pretext of protecting the Constitution, but in reality is shielding insurrectionists by delaying trials," adding, "For the sake of judicial independence, he should step down first."
She then aimed at Chief Justice Cho, saying, "Is your personnel authority being exercised to the extent that it guarantees the neutrality and objectivity of trials?" and "Now that the people have painstakingly restored democratic constitutional government, you are piggybacking to shout 'independence of the judiciary.'"
Chairperson Chu also said, "You kept silent during the era of prosecution dictatorship, so with what shame do you now argue for judicial independence under the most democratic administration?" and asked, "During the globally disgraceful prosecution coup regime, did the judiciary ever properly play its role?"
She continued, "When the Minister of Justice excluded the prosecutor general from duties and disciplined him, the court took Yoon Suk-yeol's side within a week and reinstated him," adding, "But in the first trial Yoon Suk-yeol lost, and in the second trial it was overturned. Had it not been for such grotesque rulings, the insurrection would have been prevented."
In addition, Chairperson Chu said, "In the case of Yoon Suk-yeol's mother-in-law embezzling nursing hospital subsidies, the first-trial guilty verdict was overturned and the second trial acquitted her," adding, "The court repeatedly handed get-out-of-jail-free cards to the insurrectionary forces and served only as a judicial laundromat that used the law to wash away crimes."