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Polish president accuses Tusk of forced takeover of country's top court USA Today

Polish President Seen Physically Pushing Way Into Top Court Amid Pro-EU Tusk's 'Judicial Coup' It is approaching 24 hours since Poland was dramatically plunged into a Constitutional crisis. Starting Friday night,...

Dramatic scenes unfolded in Poland as President Karol Nawrocki was seen pushing past people, including a Constitutional Court judge, while entering the country's top court building amid a deepening judicial crisis....

The dispute over control of Poland's top court spilled onto the streets of the capital on Friday evening after the court's president and his deputy were suspended. Opposition figures called it an attempted coup, and...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in a TV address on Saturday that the Constitutional Tribunal in its current format isn’t independent.

The statement comes after a confrontation outside the Constitutional Tribunal building on Friday night, broadcast live on television, that has pushed a decade-old dispute into the wider European political debate.

In a dramatic move, Nawrocki turned back his plane, which he was heading to Senegal on, late on Friday and headed for the court headquarters in central Warsaw, following Swieczkowski's suspension.

Riot police have been guarding the court since Friday afternoon, with several hundred protesters gathered to demand the reinstatement of the president of the country’s Constitutional Tribunal.

Polands midnight chaos Court under police guard Presidents return and coup claim

Dozens of officers guarded the entrance to the Constitutional Court in Warsaw on Friday as protesters gathered outside, with some chanting 'Tusk traitor'.

Police have responded to the incident.