# Poland's Constitutional Court Crisis: Tusk, Nawrocki and Police - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2116629295112319000 - Source account: [@SzymonIgoronco](https://x.com/SzymonIgoronco) - Source language: English - Duration: 3:44 - Published: 2026-11-01 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police) No one is wondering what the hell happened last night more than the Poles. [0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=4) So last night, Friday, the president of Poland was flying to Senegal. [0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=8) Halfway there, he gets a phone call, turns the plane around, and flies home. [0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=12) The emergency? A Word document. Oh, Quick guide to Polish politics for people who don't care about Polish politics: Donald Tusk, prime minister, former EU boss, Brussels golden boy. [0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=23) He says, "rule of law" about as often as Americans say, "freedom." Karol Narosky, president, historian, ex-boxer, and once took part in organized fight between football hooligans in a forest on purpose. [0:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=36) Oh, Tusk wants new judges on the Constitutional Court. [0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=39) Narosky refuses to swear them in, so Poland now has two sets of judges, one building, and a whole lot of anger. [0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=46) On Friday evening, one of Tusk's judges, not sworn in by the way, the one the president doesn't want to recognize, writes a memo basically saying, "I'm in charge now, and the court's president is suspended." She puts it on the court's website. [0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=59) Five minutes later, the court's own Twitter account posts, "Our website was hijacked. This is a coup." [1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=64) Oh, The highest court in the country is now fighting with itself online like two cousins at an Italian wedding, and then someone checks the file's details. [1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=73) The emergency order was created the night before, Thursday, at 11:00 PM. [1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=78) Some emergencies you plan for. This one, they apparently scheduled, and then the police arrived. [1:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=82) Police say they are not inside the building. [1:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=85) They're just standing outside in riot gear with weapons, keeping the court's president out of his own office. [1:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=91) By that logic, a burglar standing in your doorway has just never broken in. [1:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=95) So the court's president calls a locksmith. Yes, a locksmith. [1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=98) At 8:00 PM on a Friday, a Polish man gets a phone call, "Hi, I need you to break into our Constitutional Court." 1:00 in the morning, the president arrives. [1:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=106) His bodyguards get shoved by the police. [1:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=108) He climbs over a wall to get into the building he is constitutionally responsible for, and at the door, Tusk's judges try to physically block him. [1:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=118) If your plan for stopping a former boxer with a hooligan past is stand in the doorway and say, "Please," you should've had a meeting about that plan first. Then Tusk's judge tweets, "The president never got inside." But he's inside. He's sitting on a sofa. [2:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=132) They're sipping juice. And then the same judge posted the scuffle video as proof the president attacked them. [2:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=138) Within an hour, people were replying with the law on assaulting the president, up to five years. He basically filed the evidence himself and asked for a receipt. And where was Poland's foreign minister? [2:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=149) Our arch nemesis, also known as Anne Applebaum's husband, in Atlanta at the G20, making very sure he wasn't in a group photo with Russia's Lavrov. His country's top court is surrounded by riot police, two of his ambassadors to quit, [2:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=163) and his biggest worry is a selfie. Oh, And in 2021, Sikorski tweeted, quote, "Sometimes a coup happens in the courtroom." Years later, his government sent police to the courtroom. [2:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=175) Somebody should check if that tweet was a warning or a to-do list. [2:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=179) Other highlights from one night in Poland, two ambassadors resign in protest, China and Romania, the first time Beijing and Bucharest have agreed on anything. A leaked police order put riot units on standby with submachine guns for the entire next week. [3:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=193) Police say it's for sabotage. Sure. So let's recap. For eight years, Brussels told Poland its courts were a threat to democracy. [3:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=202) Democracy. Now Brussels' favorite government sent police to that court, a locksmith had to break in, and the president had to climb over a wall. And the EU's reaction? [3:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=213) Nothing. Apparently, rule of law only applies to governments Brussels doesn't like. Don't worry. By Monday, they'll tell you it was Russia. [3:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/eCfHTAG0dQo6/en/poland-s-constitutional-court-crisis-tusk-nawrocki-and-police?t=222) Oh, .