http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200924-223456-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/whats-in-the-words/ What’s in the Words - Learning from the Hearings in Cases C-487/19 and C-508/19: Four Avenues for (Tr)Action eng 2020-09-24 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 independent court judicial independence Poland Rule of Law Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 It is plain worrisome when judges need to end up at the European Court of Justice on the argument that what they have available at home is no longer a proper court. 22 September 2020 was such a day for two veritable Polish and therefore European judges: Judge Waldemar Żurek and Judge Monika Frąckowiak. More than a legal fight, it is a battle of and for ideas, playing out – literally – in open court.