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Military blocks police from arresting impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.
On January 3, 2025, South Korea teetered on the edge of political chaos when a military unit prevented the arrest of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol. The confrontation took place at Yoon’s residence, where personnel from the Presidential Security Service (PSS) blocked the police from executing an arrest warrant issued by a Seoul court. The arrest warrant stemmed from charges of insurrection, a direct result of Yoon’s controversial declaration of martial law on December 3, 2024.
The scene outside Yoon’s home became increasingly tense. Thousands of his supporters gathered, turning the arrest into a volatile standoff. The police, bolstered by the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO), faced stiff resistance from both the military and the protesters, prolonging the crisis for hours. The standoff exposed deep fractures within the nation, as two of its most powerful institutions—the military and law enforcement—clashed publicly.
Yoon’s legal situation is dire. He faces serious accusations of insurrection and treason, stemming from his martial law decree. Although presidential immunity typically shields him from prosecution, the charges against him are too severe to be dismissed. Yoon’s legal team has pushed back against the arrest, claiming that the CIO does not hold the authority to request such a warrant under South Korean law. This has left the country in a murky legal gray area, where the rule of law and political power are dangerously intertwined.
The political repercussions are seismic. South Korea’s government is in turmoil, with interim President Han Duck-soo also facing impeachment for his refusal to appoint justices to the Constitutional Court—a necessary step to finalize Yoon’s impeachment process. This has pushed the nation to the brink, with citizens anxiously questioning the stability of their leadership.
https://citizenwatchreport.com/military-blocks-police-from-arresting-impeached-south-korean-president-yoon-suk-yeol/
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/274907819/south-korean-military-unit-blocks-police-from-arresting-impeached-president—yonhap
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-authorities-moving-to-arrest-impeached-president-yoon-yonhap
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/seoul-south-korea-arrest-president-yoon-suk-yeol-4835856
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gp5xe1zwgo
Musk calls for Release of Zionist Tommy Robinson
Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk has called for the release of Tommy Robinson, a controversial British right-wing activist jailed in October for airing a documentary containing libelous claims about a Syrian refugee.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for claiming in a documentary that a Syrian teenager who was attacked at a Yorkshire secondary school in 2018 had a lengthy record of attacking female students.
”Free Tommy Robinson!” Musk declared in a post on X on Thursday, before posting a link to the libellous documentary.
Robinson is an ardent critic of mass immigration and Islam, and was one of the leading voices on the right condemning the ‘grooming gangs’ scandal, in which groups of Asian men raped and tortured thousands of underage girls in towns across northern England over the last two decades. Almost all of the perpetrators were Pakistani men, and the victims white British girls.
https://www.rt.com/news/610398-elon-musk-tommy-robinson/
Judge Juan Merchan Orders Trump to be Sentenced in Hush Money Case on January 10
Before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House he will return to the courthouse, a New York judge ruled Friday.
Justice Juan Merchan will sentence Trump for his crimes on Jan. 10 — just 10 days before his inauguration on Jan. 20 — in a court proceeding that will be unlike any in America's 248 years. Trump's conviction in New York stemmed from a $130,000 so-called "hush money" payment his then-attorney, Michael Cohen, made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in the days before the 2016 election.
Justice Juan Merchan's ruling ends two months of speculation — and back and forth jockeying by Trump's attorneys and prosecutors for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — following Trump's narrow election victory on Nov. 5.
Trump became the first former president ever convicted of crimes in May, when a unanimous jury found him guilty in the New York case. Sentencing in the case was stalled for months as Trump campaigned for a return to the presidency. In November, he became the first person voted into the White House after a criminal conviction.
The president-elect had argued in a motion to dismiss that his ascension to the White House mandated his conviction be vacated. Merchan said Friday that it did not.
"This court finds that neither the vacatur of the jury's verdicts nor dismissal of the indictment are required by the Presidential immunity doctrine, the Presidential Transition Act or the Supremacy Clause," Merchan wrote in his order Friday.
Merchan indicated in his ruling that Trump will not be sentenced to serve time behind bars. He wrote that prosecutors agree with this decision. He also said that Trump may appear virtually, rather than in person for the sentencing.
"It seems proper at this juncture to make known the court's inclination to not impose any sentence of incarceration, a sentence authorized by the conviction but one the (prosecutors) concede they no longer view as a practicable recommendation," Merchan wrote.
Trump's lawyers claimed the constitutional demands on a president-elect "superseded" the jury's decision and ongoing proceedings in the case.
Bragg's office argued that the judge had a range of options, including "novel" ones to balance the interests of justice with the unprecedented circumstance of a convicted defendant being elected to the presidency before sentencing. Their suggestions included postponing proceedings until after Trump's term in office, and even terminating the case and its proceedings with a note that the verdict had not been set aside.
Merchan said Trump's own motion to dismiss acknowledged that a president-elect is not entitled to immunity from criminal proceedings.
"Undoubtedly, the transition period between election and the taking of the presidential oath is one filled with enormous responsibility," Merchan wrote. "Yet, even (the) defendant in his motion refers to presidential immunity as one relating specifically to a sitting president no fewer than 33 times."
Trump's conviction carried with it the potential for up to four years in jail, but also a wide range of alternatives to incarceration, including probation and fines.
Merchan said in his ruling that after Trump's victory, his attorneys' rhetoric changed from "spirited" to "dangerously close to crossing the line."
"Counsel has resorted to language, indeed rhetoric, that has no place in legal pleadings. For example, countless times in their motion to dismiss, counsel accuses the prosecution and this court of engaging in 'unlawful' and 'unconstitutional' conduct," Merchan wrote.
Merchan cited a recent report by the Supreme Court's chief justice that warned about elected leaders undermining the judiciary
"Viewed in full context and mindful of the parties to this action, such arguments, in the broader picture, have the potential to create a chilling effect on the third branch of government," Merchan wrote.
Despite Merchan's excoriation, Trump communications director Steven Cheung did not hold back in a statement on the ruling. He called the case a "witch hunt" and Merchan "deeply conflicted."
"This lawless case should have never been brought and the Constitution demands that it be immediately dismissed," Cheung said.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-to-be-sentenced-new-york-crimes-before-inauguration/
Americans FUME After Adam Schiff Announces New Senate Committee Assignments
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/adam-schiff-announces-new-committee-assignments/
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Judicial Body Rejects Requests To Refer Supreme Court Justices To DOJ
The Judicial Conference of the United States said on Jan. 2 that it is not referring U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), rejecting complaints from a former government official and two U.S. senators.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/judicial-body-rejects-requests-refer-supreme-court-justices-doj