Another wet day here. Tending to car issues today. Nothing serious just maintenance. When you drive 20 and 30+YO vehicles, it is part of routine.

We're in the high maintenance season on the homestead. The garden is planted and growing well, but now it is mowing season and I've hardly got going.

Hope all is well in your world. Thanks for the OT!

This is the first cogent explanation I've seen in terms of a legal analysis of the ongoing coup in South Korea. The idea is to keep the public from electing the president they want. The method is political prosecution. The article first describes the five steps of the coup process thus far. Then it does a legal analysis of how the presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung can be blocked from the campaign, by the prosecutors and courts before election day June 3. If that does not succeed, the author argues that the doctrine of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution in South Korea does not apply retroactively. Therefore, Lee could be deposed from office even if elected June 3, on a final judgement of guilt after June 3 on alleged "false statements made during an election" (the offenses cited were made during a prior election campaign not the current one). The president could be removed from office for a finding of guilt in a prosecution already underway before he was elected. South Korea is so unstable now. Note: Yoon made false statements during his presidential campaign but prosecutors and media looked the other way.

Despite Yoon's impeachment, his party's coup is not over. "Not-so-blind justice: Korea’s legislature must stop a coup by the judiciary." https://t.co/AOdvkySGUW

— Tim Shorrock (@TimothyS) May 6, 2025

The opposition in the National Assembly will have to timely change the law on false statements made during a campaign, take the law on presidential immunity to the Constitutional Court, and or impeach the current Supreme Court Justices to put an end to the "dictatorship" imposed by the administration of justice in South Korea. Those appear to be the options.

This article on the India-Pakistan military confrontation in the WP wasn't behind a pay wall to my surprise:

Pakistan claims to have downed Indian warplanes, vows response to strikes

Nice artwork QMS. Thanks for the OT.

I just popped in to say that I had never realized just how sporty it can be to have hemorrhoids while on blood thinners. My long-suffering bride says that our bathroom now looks like a Dateline episode. (;-)

To make up for that, here's a little more music from Steve Adelson's Sticktet.

...till after the election on June 3. So the South Korean election for president on June 3, will go on apparently without further interference from the judiciary for the time being.

Seoul High Court delays trial of Lee Jae-myung until after presidential election

The first hearing in the remanded trial of Lee Jae-myung on alleged election law violations that had been scheduled for May 15 has been pushed back to June 18, after the presidential election in which Lee is the frontrunner.

The bench of the Seoul High Court that was assigned the case after it had been remanded by the Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it had changed the date of the first trial for the case to June 18, after the June 3 election, “for the sake of guaranteeing the defendant, a presidential candidate, equal opportunity in the election campaign and to dispel controversy over the fairness of the trial.”

The bench added that it had “long adhered to an attitude of trying cases fairly and independently based only on the Constitution and statutes, without influence or interference from within or beyond the courts, and will continue to do so going forward.”

First good news in South Korea since Yoon was dismissed from presidential office on April 4.

This seems like a judicial rebellion against the Supreme Court's political decision against Lee. The decision is procedural in nature only but allows the election to proceed without judicial interference.

The Seoul High Court's Criminal Chamber 7 (Chief Judge Lee Jae-kwon) on the 7th

Kim Joo-ok, a senior judge at the Seoul Central District Court, told the court's internal network (Courtnet) that "the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has been so active in intervening in the procedures and conclusions of individual cases," adding, "Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae should be responsible for unexplained doubts about the political neutrality of the judiciary." Roh Haeng-nam, a senior judge at the Busan District Court, also criticized the independence of the judiciary and the professional conscience of judges in the middle of politics to prevent certain people from being elected president. Earlier, Song Kyung-geun, a senior judge at the Cheongju District Court, and Kim Do-kyun, a senior judge at the Busan District Court, also criticized the Supreme Court's ruling.