nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20210720-140052-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 210720s2021||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20210720-140052-0 doi eng 342 23 Pech, Laurent Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-1608-1285 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 Verfassungsblog 2021-07-20 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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”. CC BY-SA 4.0 CJEU muzzle law Poland Polexit Rule of Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/protecting-polish-judges-from-political-control/ raw object