DradisPing
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DradisPing
2d ago
The left was gearing up to go after him before he started supporting Trump and the GOP.
I think the key turning point was his affair with Nicole Shanahan, Sergey Brin's wife.
That divorce cut off a major source of funding for woke left groups. They wanted revenge.
DradisPing
6d ago
Yeah but they also have too much of a nationalist streak. The EU pitch is "We're planning to feed 40% of your working age males into the meat grinder, but don't worry! We'll import MENA people to replace them." PiS would probably have issues.
I can give you a very loose overview but I'm fuzzy on the details.
So remember that Poland was a Soviet puppet state until 1989. When they were democratizing they sort of set aside the issue of judicial appointments and kept the Soviet era judges on. Judicial rulings just hadn't been very important and they had a lot of things to sort out.
In the 90s the judges solved the appointment issue by deciding that future judges would be chosen by current judges.
Now it's important to remember that judges serve for life and people live a long time these days. eg Parler was shut down by Amazon in 2020 and had to go before a judge appointed by Jimmy Carter when they tried to get an injunction.
So in 2015 the right wing PiS government wanted to bring some democratic representation / accountability into the appointment process. And also appoint some right leaning judges, obviously.
There have been disputes since. Tusk says that the PiS appointed judges are illegitimate, President Nawrocki has refused to swear in recent nominations from the Tusk lead parliament. Tusk says that doesn't matter.
So there's a crisis of legitimacy for the courts.
This is kicking off now because the EU wants it's eastern nations to be fully on board for war with Russia. Tusk is heavily EU aligned.
Trump at least had the restraint not to launch a ground invasion. GWB would have racked up thousands of dead US soldiers by now.
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