President Duda is Destroying the Rule of Law instead of Fixing it Matczak, Marcin Author aut Text xx# 2017 Verfassungsblog 2017-09-29 eng
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 Were the president of any country to propose acts of law that remove almost half of the members of its supreme court, interrupt the constitutional term of office of the chairperson of such court, give himself the right to appoint a new chairperson of the court, and finally, interrupt the constitutionally defined term of office of a judicial council responsible for appointing judges, the consequences of such manifestly unconstitutional solutions would be massive public opposition and accusations of a coup d’état.  And yet in Poland, where this is exactly what is happening, the President’s proposals are met with understanding.  Why?  Because they are perceived as better than the even more unconstitutional proposals put forward earlier by the ruling party, Law and Justice.  CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Matczak, Marcin funded by the government Council of the Judiciary judicial reform Polish Supreme Court President 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/president-duda-is-destroying-the-rule-of-law-instead-of-fixing-it/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20170929-171918 170929 10.17176/20170929-171918 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)