Riot police were deployed at Poland's Constitutional Court on Friday amid an escalating confrontation between Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government and judges appointed by his predecessors from the right-wing Law and Justice party. Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek announced plans to strip the court's president and vice-president of immunity to pursue criminal charges, part of Tusk's effort to depoliticize the judiciary after what he describes as years of PiS lawlessness. The standoff reflects a broader institutional clash: European courts previously ruled the PiS-appointed majority was improperly constituted, while President Karol Nawrocki, backed by PiS, has refused to swear in five judges elected by the current parliament.
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