nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170623-103309 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 170623s2017||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20170623-103309 doi eng 342 23 Matczak, Marcin Author aut How to Demolish an Independent Judiciary with the Help of a Constitutional Court Matczak, Marcin Verfassungsblog 2017-06-23 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 20 June, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, with three anti-judges among its members, decided that certain provisions of the Act on the National Council of the Judiciary of Poland were unconstitutional. By doing so, the Tribunal unanimously conceded to the motion of the Minister of Justice, who had questioned those provisions in the course of work on reform of the National Council of the Judiciary. The reason why the current Polish Government unexpectedly suspended the process of usurping control of the national judicial system in order to enlist the help of the constitutional court can be understood with the help of a metaphor. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 judicial independence Polish Constitutional Tribunal Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/how-to-demolish-an-independent-judiciary-with-the-help-of-a-constitutional-court/ raw object