nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20170508-151909 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 151123s2015||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20170508-151909 doi eng 342 23 Śledzińska-Simon, Anna Author aut Midnight Judges: Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal Caught Between Political Fronts Śledzińska-Simon, Anna Verfassungsblog 2015-11-23 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Many Eastern European states have seen their once glorious constitutional courts politically delegitimized in recent years. Now, Poland might join them. Hasty attempts by the outgoing majority to fill the benches of the court with judges of their choosing, and constitutionally dubious attempts by the new majority to thwart those attempts and to tamper with constitutional procedural law, threaten to inflict fatal damage to the Polish Constitutional Tribunal and its integrity. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Constitutional Court Court Packing judicial independence Marbury v. Madison Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/midnight-judges-polands-constitutional-tribunal-caught-between-political-fronts/ raw object