nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230605-231201-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230605s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230605-231201-0 doi eng 342 23 Granat, Mirosław Author aut Spotlight Interpretation and its Devastating Effects - On a Peculiar Method of Constitutional Interpretation Granat, Mirosław Verfassungsblog 2023-06-05 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier After 1989 Poland struggled to build up a free state based on the rule of law. More recently, illiberal constitutionalism has been damaging these hard-won gains. This blogpost will argue that the systematic dismantling of Poland’s rule of law, without officially amending the Constitution, was possible due to a peculiar interpretative technique called spotlight interpretation. Its essence lies in the opportunistic interpretation of systemically important constitutional provisions to achieve the short-term political goals of the ruling majority, and it has arguably been central to the destruction of judicial independence in Poland’s constitutional order. CC BY-SA 4.0 Constitutional Interpretation judicial independence Poland Rule of Law Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/spotlight-interpretation-and-its-devastating-effects/ raw object