Karol Nawrocki

One last thing is that a massive harm has been already done.

Without this institution, and between them Tusk, Nawrocki and Law and Justice have stripped it of all meaning and public trust, and I'm old enough to remember how trusted it was before 2015, we have very few safeguards left against an actual threat to the very way we live in Poland.

To an actual coup, for example.

Think of rules such as Orbán's or Vucic's.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has accused Russia of seeking to fuel instability in Poland by meddling in a dispute between his government and the President over the Constitutional Tribunal.

A crisis over the appointment of judges to Poland's Constitutional Tribunal over the weekend has pushed a simmering conflict between President Karol Nawrocki, a nationalist, and Tusk's pro-European government into open confrontation.

Tensions came to a head last week when the head of the constitutional tribunal allied with Navrotsky's nationalists was suspended and crowds gathered outside the court in support of him.

Russian politicians, including Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, described the Tusk government's moves in the dispute over the tribunal as a coup.

it's very mysterious, but I think the mystery behind it just adds to the sense of danger, you know, that it is a crisis.

Evidently, the president of Poland, Nawrocki, was actually on his way to Senegal.

When the prime minister, a leftist, a Tusk, and I understand kind of an EU, European Union partisan, decided to essentially take over the constitutional court.

Poland against the Constitution itself by disqualifying those who had been duly chosen and installed as the judges for the Constitutional Court, and he decided to replace them by his own nominees.

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To meet this test, a subhead of Mr. Barber's first chapter offers a maxim, Personality Shapes Performance Mr. Barber's book, published in 1972, is a sweeping study of the importance of character, image, ethics, political dexterity, and performative talent from Woodrow Wilson through the collapse of Richard M. Nixon.

His system of classifying presidential performance was vastly influential among my generation of national political correspondents.

I am among the hundreds of journalists who had a ringside seat at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

That doesn't allow for personal intimacy, but regular exposure to a president's public acts and interviews with his chosen courtiers does allow one to take the measure of a chief executive.

Presidents operate in plain sight, and they can't hide their core traits over time.

President Trump is dwarfed by his predecessors.

I can attest that even in disgrace, the private Nixon had an aura of ravaged dignity that remained presidential in scale.

When I watch the current president and his toadies wreck our patriotic landmarks and essential tools of governance, I recall the lament of Ridley Walker, the eponymous hero of the 1980 Russell Hoban novel.

So this all happened while the president of Poland was on his way to, I forget where he was going, but he was on a plane.

The president, whose name is Karol Nowrocki, K-A-R-O-L, Karol Nowrocki, N-A-W-R-O-C-K-I, turns the plane around.

He was actually en route to Senegal, turns the plane around.

It's like, who do you people think you are? Comes back to Warsaw and starts trying to enter what they call the Constitutional Tribunal, where the tribunal president and the deputy got suspended.