Posted on 10/06/2025 12:26:44 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
Equality before the law is only possible when justice is blind—administered to all indiscriminately, without fear or favour. Lacking the votes necessary to amend the law, Tusk’s government has effectively abolished this principle by decree. Under new regulations, court presidents appointed by the minister of justice now effectively hand-pick judges, ensuring that the outcome of court proceedings becomes a politically desirable foregone conclusion.
Donald Tusk’s left-liberal government and its political allies have just introduced, in violation of statutory law, a fundamental change to the mechanism for assigning cases to judges, through an executive act, namely a ministerial regulation. Under these new rules, instead of all three judges on an adjudicating panel being selected by random draw, only one is now chosen by lot, while the other two can be “appointed” by court management—most of whom were themselves unlawfully installed by the Tusk government.
This decision constitutes an attack on the constitutional principles of impartiality and judicial independence. It abandons randomness—the very safeguard ensuring that no authority or superior could influence who hears a case. In practice, court presidents, now loyal government appointees, have gained a tool to hand-pick panels for key, particularly political, cases. This change completes the process of subordinating the judiciary to the executive branch. After taking over the prosecution service and unlawfully dismissing court presidents, the Tusk government now wields control over adjudication itself.
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WTH I thought they voted this a-hole out.
Sorta like the ‘just-us’ joke when trying folks in D.C., is it not? After all, with regard to actual justice, the only diff between a DemocRAT ‘judge’ and some dice is the fact that you stand a better chance with the dice.
Does President Karol Nawrocki have no say on this?
Under Tusk’s conservative predecessor, such influence over the judiciary was highly criticized by the EU, to the point they initiated Art 7 proceedings against Poland, a step that strips many membership rights, including voting. But for Tusk, it’s fine.
Poland has both a Prime Minister and a President. Poles recently elected a conservative president to replace another conservative president. Unfortunately, the president has little power compared to the PM.
Unfortunately not yet.
Tusk the Berlin stooge is prime minister, leader of the largest coalition in parliament. They were voted on in 2023 and the next parliamentary elections are on 2027.
This is the biggest enemy in Poland
Barbara Nowacka - Education Minister. Evil, evil woman.
The Duda government took power in 2015 and sought to (1) eliminate communist influences in government, media, and education, (2) make Poland a significant power in the EU by positioning it to fight German (and to a lesser extent, French) control of the EU. The biggest initial problem was that the leftist government on its way out sought to appoint a slate of leftist judges on the Supreme Court (which has over 100 members who are assigned to different areas like labor law, education law, etc., along with the members of the Constitutional Court that most resembles the SCOTUS). Duda and his new government resisted this, and the method was kind of sketchy from an outsider point of view — basically, they made the person who had to sign off on the judicial appointments be out of the country for the time that the appointments had to be signed. This is what initially kicked off the EU’s claims that Poland was undermining the rule of law, despite that it was Duda responding to the leftist’s likely-illegal dirty tricks.
Then the Duda government went after leftist / communist control of the media. There’s no First Amendment protections in Poland. The government has remarkable control over the media. The Duda government purged the known communist holdovers and took control of the state apparatus for media control. The change in news stories on their mainstream media occurred almost overnight. The EU and the Polish left characterized this as anti-rule-of-law, despite that former-communist / pro-EU control of the media was absolute and used to perpetuate their power.
The other major change was that the Duda government opened all the state files regarding which people in public employment (especially education) had been connected, particularly those who appeared favorably in the secret police files. All of those people got fired.
All of this pissed off the leftists. In the last election, the leftists captured the parliamentary elections. But Poland holds elections for president separately from elections for the parliament (which appoints the prime minister). In the presidential election, there was a third party spoiler candidate who, according to my friends, was a television personality and also mostly centrist with left leanings. My impression on the ground was that the conservative Poles kind of fell asleep at the switch for the last parliamentary elections. The result of the parliamentary elections woke the conservatives back up and they elected a conservative Peace & Justice Party candidate for the Presidency.
Tusk is a Euro Swamp Creature. God only knows how he came to lead a proud,decent and respectable country like Poland.
The problem is that women (they have AWFULs in Poland, too) were motivated to vote for the Left, because of Poland’s strict anti-abortion laws.
Under Duda, he brought back the Sony/CBS game show pair Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! back on state media. Pat Sajak made a visit on CBS’ behalf to the Polish set to launch the event. We know he is a strong conservative.
I remember on Facebook there was a huge protest against the PiS leftist government for the shenanigans on Jeopardy! after firing Mr. Babiarz.
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