http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210720-140052-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/protecting-polish-judges-from-political-control/ Protecting Polish Judges from Political Control - A brief analysis of the ECJ’s infringement ruling in Case C-791/19 (disciplinary regime for judges) and order in Case C-204/21 R (muzzle law) Pech, Laurent eng 2021-07-20 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 CJEU muzzle law Poland Polexit Rule of Law Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 After many years of judicial “reforms”, Kaczyński’s Poland may soon become the EU’s second authoritarian Member State, even as the European Court of Justice increasingly attempted to deal with different aspects of Kaczyński’s multi-pronged attacks on judicial independence. In Case C-791/19, the found the new disciplinary regime for Polish judges to be incompatible with EU law while in Case C-204/21 R, the Vice-President of the ECJ ordered the immediate suspension of the application of the legislative provisions governing the jurisdiction of the infamous “Disciplinary Chamber”.