Before the verdict in President Yoon Suk Yeol's trial, is the Constitutional Court telling the opposition to stop abusing the power to impeach?

When the court this week ruled on the impeachment of Prime Minister and acting President Han Duck-soo, we expected it, as the referee, to either say there had been no foul or say there had been, and show him a red card.

Instead, the court said he’d committed a foul, wagged its finger at him, and said, “Play on.”

How may we interpret this? Can we expect the same in Yoon’s impeachment case? Or is he more certain to get a red card?

As a reminder, the National Assembly had impeached Han on grounds of colluding with Yoon in the Dec. 3 martial law declaration and then, as acting president after Yoon’s impeachment, violating the Constitution by refusing to appoint three justices the Assembly had selected for the Constitutional Court.

The judges said there was no evidence to suggest Han was involved in martial law. They said his failure to accept the judicial appointments was unconstitutional but not egregious enough to amount to a breach of public trust. There was no evidence that Han intended to harm constitutional........

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