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A Committee for the Defence of Democracy protest in Warsaw against Poland's new government, 12 December 2015. The Polish Constitutional Tribunal crisis has been an ongoing political conflict in Poland starting in the second half of 2015 over the appointment of five of the 15 judges of the Constitutional Tribunal.
Served from 12 November 2015 Marshal: Marek Kuchciński: Law and Justice: Served from 12 November 2015 to 9 August 2019 Elżbieta Witek: Law and Justice: Served from 9 August 2019 to 11 November 2019 Deputy Marshals: Joachim Brudziński: Law and Justice: Served from 12 November 2015 to 9 January 2018 Beata Mazurek: Law and Justice
The Constitutional Tribunal (Polish: Trybunał Konstytucyjny [trɘˈbu.naw kɔn.stɘ.tuˈt͡sɘj.nɘ]) is the constitutional court of the Republic of Poland, a judicial body established to resolve disputes on the constitutionality of the activities of state institutions; its main task is to supervise the compliance of statutory law with the Constitution of the Republic of Poland.
Poland’s parliament elected three ruling party nominees as judges to the constitutional court, including two widely denounced by opposition lawmakers, raising concerns about the court’s ...
The Polish constitutional crisis, also known as the Polish rule-of-law crisis, is a political conflict ongoing since 2015 in which the Polish government has been accused of failing to comply with European and Polish constitutional law. The 2015 elections resulted in the Law and Justice party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS) winning control of ...
The State Tribunal (Trybunał Stanu) is a special judicial organ with exclusive jurisdiction over trials of the highest political offices of Poland in cases defined by the Constitution, namely (among active ones): the President, the Prime Minister, ministers, the President of the National Bank of Poland, the President of the Supreme Audit ...
A late exit poll by Ipsos published on Monday afternoon gave PiS 196 seats in the 460-member ... and captured 'Constitutional Tribunal'," said Laurent Pech, dean of law and head of the Sutherland ...
The Tribunal shocked the EU by ruling twice in 2021 that provisions of EU treaties were incompatible with the Polish constitution, expressly challenging the primacy of European law over national ...