Judge's suspension is part of a long dispute over politicisation of the Constitutional Tribunal under former government.

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

President Karol Nawrocki seen struggling to gain entry to court building in Warsaw amid long-running row over the court’s legitimacy Riot police were locked in a tense standoff with protesters outside Poland’s constitutional court on Friday night after its top judge was suspended in the latest escalation in a decade-long dispute over the court’s legal status. The clashes followed a controversial decision by a group of government-appointed judges to suspend the court’s contested president, Bogdan Święczkowski, and his deputy, Bartłomiej Sochański, amid disagreements over the bench’s legitimacy. Continue reading...

Donald Tusk vowed on 31 October to rebuild Poland's Constitutional Tribunal after President Karol Nawrocki forced his way into the court overnight to back its suspended PiS-appointed president and vice-president. Nawrocki has blocked five of eight judges the Sejm elected this year.