Korea’s National Assembly on Friday passed a controversial bill allowing constitutional complaints against court rulings, after the ruling bloc moved to end a 24-hour filibuster staged by opposition lawmakers who had denounced the measure as a fundamental shake-up of the country’s judicial order. The amendment to the Constitutional Court Act, which brings court judgments within the scope of constitutional complaints, was approved at 7:44 p.m. during a plenary session led by the ruling party. The bill passed in a 162-63 vote among 225 lawmakers present, after lawmakers from pro-government parties voted to close debate. All lawmakers from the main opposition People Power Party (PPP) who were in attendance voted against the bill, joined by a few other lawmakers from minor parties. Legislators from the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) and other pro-government parties overwhelmingly backed the measure. At the heart of the bill, formally an amendment to the Constitutional Court Act is a plan to permit individuals to file constitutional complaints against finalized court judgments un