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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.
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
By 2020, fourteen out of the fifteen judges had been appointed to the Constitutional Tribunal by the Sejm since the return in power of PiS in 2015, which was seen by the former tribunal presidents and judges as one of the signs of a lack of checks and balances against PiS' domination of three branches of government power.
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 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 ...
October 2020 protests against abortion restrictions in Kraków, Poland. On 22 October 2020, the Constitutional Tribunal, with disputed judges, ruled that abortion in cases of disability or life-limiting illness were unconstitutional, further limiting abortion rights in Poland. The decision was nearly unanimous, with judges ruling 11–2 in ...
Poland's Constitutional Tribunal ruled on Thursday that bringing the central bank governor Adam Glapinski before the State Tribunal requires a qualified majority of votes in parliament. This will ...