Poland's Coup Controversy

Poland is facing a constitutional and judicial crisis over the legitimacy of appointments to the Constitutional Tribunal and who has the authority to run it. Donald Tusk’s government says it wants to restore judicial independence, while President Karol Nawrocki and the opposition accuse it of trying to take control of the court. The dispute escalated after Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska suspended the tribunal president and vice-president from their duties for a month and took over its administration—a move the opposing side says is illegitimate. Police were deployed near the tribunal, but said their officers had not entered the building. The parties have traded accusations of breaking the law.

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