🇵🇱⚖️🇪🇺 Good morning, today the Polish Constitutional Tribunal hears another rule of law case - P 7/20, initiated by the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court. Yes, it's the legally dubious Chamber that was twice ordered by CJEU interim orders to shut down. They didn't. (1/6) 
The Chamber is asking the Tribunal whether CJEU interim measures (such as the one CJEU issued wrt Disciplinary Chamber) are in line with the Polish Constitution. Yes, it's an EU Member State court asking another court in the same MS if the CJEU could tell it to shut down. (2/6)
As with yesterday's EU law case, a host of Polish state bodies are participating in the case, all of them likely aligning themselves with the Chamber except for the lone ranger, Adam Bodnar, who will be the only one to defend EU law and the competences of CJEU. (3/6)
At stake, once again, is respect for EU law and the Luxembourg court. They've already been damaged by the Disciplinary Chamber flouting the interim orders, but now with a view towards a flimsy legal excuse to do so, the damage will be even greater. (4/6)
Just as this all is happening, @vonderleyen met with Polish PM Morawiecki and discussed, among others, "rule of law issues". I'd say the time for discussion is long over and the Commission needs to act, as what we're witnessing is a snowballing caused by prior inaction. (5/6)
Of course, I'll be live-tweeting about today's case at the Polish Constitutional Tribunal - made all the easier by them live-streaming the stuff, since recently in FullHD! Sadly, no English subtitles yet. (6/6)
Too much typing, too little caffeine - CJEU ordered the Chamber to shut down via one interim order so far, BUT there's a high chance there will be another one very shortly, so this could have been a subconsciously predictive tweet as Monsieur Laurent Pech kindly observed. (7/6)
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