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Anybody cheering Tusk’s moves right now doesn’t understand the Polish Constitution or the actual risk. Under the Constitution, the President is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. Nawrocki holds that authority. Tusk’s government controls the police and civilian administration. Deploying police against the Constitutional Tribunal puts the state in a position where one side has the police and the other side has formal command of the military. That’s not a normal political dispute. It’s a structural problem that can escalate quickly if either side treats the other as illegitimate. Poland’s system was designed with divided powers precisely to avoid one camp controlling everything.

The woman President Nawrocki confronted at the entrance to the Constitutional Tribunal is Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, the same person who issued the suspension order against Święczkowski and claimed the role of acting head of the Tribunal. She is NOT even on the tribunal. She was elected by the Sejm, but she never took the oath before the President, which Polish law requires for a person to become a judge of the Constitutional Tribunal. She (and several others) performed an alternative ceremony in the Sejm and submitted the documents to the Presidential Chancellery. The previous Tribunal leadership and Nawrocki both reject that as valid. So under the interpretation of the President and the outgoing Tribunal leadership, she is not a member of the Tribunal at all. In short: Under Polish law, election by the Sejm is only the first step. A person becomes a judge of the Constitutional Tribunal only after taking the oath before the President. Nawrocki has refused to administer that oath. From that perspective, everything that followed (the suspension order, the claim to acting presidency, the police presence supporting them) rests on people who, according to the President, have no legal standing inside the institution.

There is some confusion about the Polish political system. Police - Controlled by the government (Prime Minister + Minister of Interior). Tusk’s government fully controls the police. That is why officers could be deployed around the Tribunal on government orders. Military - The President is the formal Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. Day-to-day management sits with the Minister of Defence (under the government), but the President has significant influence: he appoints the top military commanders, confers ranks, and has a strong formal role in national security and wartime command. So Nawrocki has real leverage over the military, though not absolute day-to-day control. Courts/Constitutional Tribunal: 💠 The Sejm (parliament, currently controlled by Tusk’s coalition) elects the judges of the Constitutional Tribunal. 💠 The President must administer the oath for those judges to take office. Nawrocki has used this power to block several of Tusk’s nominees. That is why the current crisis is so sharp: the government is using the police (which it controls) to support a takeover of an institution whose leadership the President has been able to protect through the oath requirement. teapawt.org/sjkaleta/status/211631…

Tusk’s move was deliberately timed for maximum cowardice. He waited until President Nawrocki was out of the country and until the All Saints’ weekend (Wszystkich Swietych), when millions of Poles leave their cities to visit family graves and light candles. That is not restoring the rule of law. That is choosing the one moment when public attention is at its lowest and institutional resistance is hardest to organize. A government that needs the President abroad and the country distracted to seize control of the Constitutional Tribunal is not acting from strength. It is acting from calculation.🕯️

Nawrocki has consistently positioned himself against deeper EU institutional control over Polish courts and sovereignty. Tusk’s government, by contrast, has treated alignment with Brussels on “rule of law” as both a priority and a source of political leverage. Moving against the Tribunal while the President was out of the country, using contested judges and police, looks less like a pure legal cleanup and more like an attempt to create a crisis that forces Nawrocki onto the defensive. Whether it strengthens Tusk’s hand is the open question. Forcing a confrontation this way can backfire if it hardens public and institutional resistance, elevates Nawrocki’s profile as the defender of national institutions, or makes the EU connection look like external interference rather than neutral principle. The next few days will show whether the pressure produces concessions or simply entrenches the standoff. ordoiuris.pl/en/press-newsde…

Anna Korwin-Piotrowska (the judge in question) ordered the one-month suspension of Święczkowski and claimed the role of acting head of the Tribunal. She relies on: 💠 Article 130 of the Law on the System of Common Courts (immediate interruption of a judge’s duties). 💠The claim that, as the longest-serving judge, she can temporarily replace the President under the Tribunal’s own organization rules. Not sure if it is even legal: 💠 She never took the presidential oath required by law, so she is not a fully valid judge of the Constitutional Tribunal in the first place. 💠 There is no clear legal mechanism allowing a single contested judge to suspend the sitting President of the Tribunal. 💠 The provision she cites was designed for ordinary courts, not for the Constitutional Tribunal’s leadership. If the presidential oath is a mandatory condition for becoming a judge of the Constitutional Tribunal (which the law requires), then Anna Korwin-Piotrowska is not a fully valid judge. A person who is not a valid judge cannot lawfully suspend the President of the Tribunal or take over its leadership. From that perspective, what happened is not an internal court procedure; it is an attempt by contested appointees, backed by the government and police, to seize control of the institution.

Nawrocki is back and it looks like he has a meeting in the Presidential Palace. It gives Nawrocki room to coordinate with the Supreme Court leadership and Święczkowski without turning the night into a direct physical standoff. Going straight to the Tribunal with a crowd already there and special police units in place would have raised the risk of confrontation. It gives Nawrocki room to coordinate with the Supreme Court leadership and Święczkowski without turning the night into a direct physical standoff. The next 24–48 hours is crucial. His first public statement after these meetings will signal how far he’s prepared to push; legal challenge, formal declaration of illegality, or something more forceful.

The timing is hard to ignore. Nawrocki was mid-air on an official trip, a long Polish All Saints' Day holiday weekend is approaching, and the move to suspend Święczkowski and insert police happened precisely then. That looks less like neutral “restoration of the rule of law” and more like a calculated power play while the President was out of the country. Tusk’s statement frames it as cleaning up “PiS-led lawlessness.” It is just the opposite: replacing one set of political control over the Tribunal with another, this time one that answers only to Brussels. The “rule of law” being restored is the version that prioritizes EU institutions and the current parliamentary majority’s preferences over the previous composition that had been fighting those same institutions. Suspending the president of the court and sending in police while Nawrocki is out of the country and Poles are focused on the holiday isn’t legal housekeeping. It’s a power move. The Tribunal is now a battlefield, and everyone can see it.

Nawrocki has landed back in Poland and probably will go to the Constitutional Tribunal site that would be highly symbolic. However, he does not have the power to simply reverse the suspension or order police out of the area by decree. With special police units already surrounding the protesters and the opposition framing this as a “coup,” the situation remains tense. The next 24–48 hours will show how far each side is willing to push.

Poland: The Oct 30 Constitutional Tribunal escalation was the climax of months of simmering tension. The government's decision to suspend Święczkowski and deploy police appears to be a calculated power grab while the President was away and the lead-up to All Saints' Day, when most people are focused on their families. The Constitutional Tribunal is effectively split into two competing leaderships. One side (the Tusk-aligned judges) claims it has suspended Święczkowski and taken control. The other side (Święczkowski and the previous leadership) declares the move illegal and still claims authority. This means the country’s highest constitutional court cannot function normally. Rulings, if any are issued, will be contested as illegitimate by half the political spectrum. President Nawrocki cutting short his foreign trip signals that this is being treated as a national emergency by the PiS-aligned camp. Expect intensified protests, possible further police actions, and reciprocal legal moves (immunity-lifting requests, criminal complaints, etc.). This crisis continues Poland’s long conflict with EU institutions over judicial independence. The European Commission and European Court of Justice have previously ruled against the previous composition of the Tribunal. The current government’s attempt to assert control may be framed in Brussels as necessary reform, while the opposition will present it as political capture. This could affect Poland’s access to remaining EU funds and its broader standing inside the Union. The institutional fight is real and damaging. Trust in Tusk is low among conservatives for well-documented reasons (his EU career, the 2023–2026 coalition’s direction, and the aggressive approach to the judiciary). The timing does look opportunistic.

No substance, just pure animosity. Most voters have already decided. This kind of personal sneering should make the choice clearer for anyone still on the fence. Hope they vote against him.

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Obama’s presidency was polarizing. He was the biggest divider, kicking off the mess we’re stuck with while legacy media spent eight years treating him like a saint. Multiple metrics show partisan gaps on values, government, race, and immigration widened sharply from 2008–2016. Polarization is not solely Obama’s creation. Media fragmentation, social media, cultural sorting all contributed. But his administration’s rhetoric, the documented IRS criteria, the FISA process failures, and the measurable rise in affective and ideological polarization during those years are real.

The more they dig, the more they find. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. Feds already flagged 405 non-citizens who cast roughly 1,500 ballots. Hobbs is refusing to set those ballots aside. This is how Ds win in places like Washington: loose registration, automatic mail ballots, and zero real citizenship checks. That’s exactly why they’re fighting every basic safeguard.

You have to be blind...🙄

The main story is that the leak got shut down. Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia (the Joint Staff J5, top strategy/plans guy) was fired by Hegseth after being accused of leaking classified material on the Iran war, Ukraine, and other topics. A Pentagon official said he failed three polygraphs about it, started meeting reporters outside the building to get around the escort policy, and the case has been referred to DOJ. Polygraphs aren’t perfect, and the investigation is still ongoing, but the practical result is the same: a senior general under suspicion of feeding classified information to the press is no longer in the job. That’s the part that matters for stopping leaks, regardless of how many three-stars are unhappy about it.

So the candidate whose entire pitch is “I’ll unrig the system” is the one facing the most detailed public allegation of trying to game the ballot in her own race. Classic projection. 😘