It was different in 2017...Is it possible to appoint an acting judge? [Anchor Report]

Acting President Han Deok-soo is currently debating whether he can appoint a constitutional judge with three vacancies.

However, after former President Park Geun Hye was dismissed in 2017, Acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn was appointed as a constitutional judge.

Let's take a look at the screen at that time.This is the scene where former Acting President Hwang

appoints a new constitutional judge at the time, Lee Sun-ae.

After being appointed as the successor of Judge Lee Jung-mi, who read the sentence cited in former President Park Geun Hye's impeachment trial, he received a letter of appointment of Acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn,
At the time, the ruling and opposition parties' positions on the appointment of acting constitutional judges of
were 180 degrees different from today.

Most constitutional scholars believe that the acting president, not the president, cannot appoint the head of the Constitutional Court or a constitutional judge.

Acting President Hwang Kyo-ahn eventually pushed ahead with the appointment, with the ruling Saenuri Party, the predecessor of the people's power, saying, "We must appoint it" and the Democratic Party of Korea saying, "We cannot appoint it."

However, the difference between then and now is that in 2017, it was after the final decision of impeachment, and the Constitutional Court Justice Lee Sun-ae, who was appointed at the time, was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.