People demonstrate in support of the Supreme Court judges in front of the Supreme Court building in Warsaw on Tuesday evening.
Posted on 07/04/2018 5:30:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The law, which came into force at midnight, mandates that all Supreme Court judges over the age of 65 must retire and will force 27 of the 72 judges off the bench, according to the European Union.
"My presence here is not about politics, I am here to protect the rule of law," Gersdorf, who is 65, said at the court's entrance...
...Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, insists that the measures are needed and will strengthen democracy.
"Each EU state has the right to shape their legal system according to their own traditions," Morawiecki told the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday.
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The 27 judges affected by the new law could submit an application to Poland's President -- an ally of the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party -- to extend their mandate. According to the Supreme Court, 16 of them did so. However, Gersdorf said she "did not submit and will not submit" such an application.
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The European Commission, the EU's principal administrative body, has contested the law and on Monday announced it had launched an infringement procedure against it.
The legislation would "undermine the principle of judicial independence, including the irremovability of judges," it said in a statement. The Polish government has one month to respond to the commission's Letter of Formal Notice, it said.
Nonetheless, the dispute has highlighted the limitations on what the EU can do to deal with member states that act contrary to the bloc....
... EU has clashed repeatedly with Morawiecki's government over judicial reforms that have broadened the government's power over the Supreme Court and national council of the judiciary, which appoints judges.
People demonstrate in support of the Supreme Court judges in front of the Supreme Court building in Warsaw on Tuesday evening.
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By disobeying the law. Got it.
This lady was born in the early 1950s.
I tend to think of judges at the scoundrels who hate President Trump the most and who are the most pernicious defenders of Corporatism and the entrenched “Never Trump” forces of a Deep State.
this is the EU telling Poland how to retire judges.
ExitPol now!
Why can’t we have something like that over here?
Funny how judges who invent rights that nobody ever voted on, and appear in no written constitutional document, such as gay marriage, think they are protecting the rule of law.
You make it sound as if that was a long time ago.
A judge is just a lawyer with too much power.
While I believe in term limits Eff The EU!
Your mother sucks, your sister sucks and your father would have sucked but I didn’t have a nickel!
Fat Belgian bastards
I note the EU has no 10th amendment protections.
PoleExit
Early retirement, yes. Courts stacked with 72 judges, no thanks.
More Perogies for the rest of us LOL
Good luck with the misappropriated French Fries and Mayonnaise stuff...
Ohh the Portuguese and Spain or Greece may not produce wine, that is the realm of France,
The Greeks may produce olives, which pisses off the Spaniards, Italians and Portuguese.
So says some fat Belgium bastard.
I see where this is headed.
Fat-Belgium-bastard-opoly?
One could equally say they had a chance to see both ways.
Were growing olives and making wine in Tx
What do you call a failed lawyer? Your Honor!
Mexico and Spain are fixing to get a boot up the ***, Canada too,
Trump is right about free trade.
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