Poland Constitutional Court chaos

di Not A Newt: Donald Tusk

the court's own X account went with "a coup d'état" first, and the rest of the night in Poland reads like it agreed. Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, a judge Parliament had elected but President Nawrocki would not swear in, one of five in that spot, suspended Bogdan Święczkowski from running the Constitutional Court and took the reins herself on Friday evening. Waldemar Żurek, the justice minister, is pushing to have immunity lifted from Święczkowski and from his deputy as well, which would open the door to charges. riot police formed a ring around the building and three people ended up detained. Nawrocki had a flight to Senegal going when he turned it around, came back, and was inside a little before 1:00 AM, with pushing and shoving at the entrance. his version, given at 5:00 AM: "a constitutional body was seized by force." Donald Tusk framed it as a duty with no fallback, saying "Restoring the rule of law is our duty… There is no other way," while PiS leader Kaczyński reached for "police state." a coup in Poland is a wild sentence to be typing out, and yet the institution's own account said it before anyone else did.