nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20201026-104859-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 201024s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20201026-104859-0 doi eng 342 23 Koncewicz, Tomasz Tadeusz Author aut No more “Business as Usual” Looking Beyond the Constitutional Oppression Koncewicz, Tomasz Tadeusz Verfassungsblog 2020-10-24 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier The Polish Constitutional Court (“the Court”), once a proud institution and an effective check on the will of the majority, is now a shell of its former self. It has become a dangerous and unhinged institution that uses the judicial review both as a sword to punish the opponents and to promote the illiberal agenda of the ruling majority. Thursday’s abortion ruling is only the latest example. In these dark days we must always remember the old Constitutional Court and the liberal foundations it had laid for more than twenty years. More crucially, accepting the current constitutional oppression as “business as usual”, will carry the risk of losing the rule of law in Poland for good. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Polish Constitutional Court political justice Rule of Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/no-more-business-as-usual/ raw object