Poland attacks the constitutional court

The dispute is escalating over Poland's lustration law, according to which 700,000 Poles have to turn in a declaration regarding their possible secret service work. On Thursday, one day before the Constitutional Court was to deliver its verdict on the law, the government recalled two constitutional judges, saying they had worked for the secret service. Editor in chief Robert Krasowski is furious about this "war of lustration": "What happened yesterday is outrageous. How can one organ of power control another? Only to intimidate it and force the other into making a decision that is favourable to itself? This is an unprecedented scandal... Even if the charge eventually is confirmed that the expelled judges were agents, the manner in which this was released - with demonstrative brutality and obvious political interest - is unacceptable in a constitutional state."

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