nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230611-231026-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230611s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230611-231026-0 doi eng 342 23 Pech, Laurent Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-1608-1285 Doing Justice to Poland’s Muzzle Law - The Latest ECJ Judgement on Poland's Rule of Law Breakdown Pech, Laurent Verfassungsblog 2023-06-11 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 5 June 2023, the Court of Justice issued its fourth infringement judgment in relation to yet another Polish piece of legislation – informally known as the muzzle law – which aimed to dissuade or punish Polish judges for applying and upholding EU rule of law requirements. As anyone with any basic understanding of EU law could have predicted, the law rushed into force by Poland’s ruling coalition in December 2019 did not survive judicial scrutiny in Luxembourg. As long as the Commission fails to demand full compliance with CJEU case law and decisively address the issue of judicial usurpers, however, just chipping away at the arbitrary disciplinary changes Polish authorities have made will always fail to solve Poland’s fundamental and systemic issues. CC BY-SA 4.0 European Court of Justice muzzle law Rule of Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/doing-justice-to-polands-muzzle-law/ raw object