Poland’s Would-Be Globalist Coup
While Poland’s conservative president, Karol Nawrocki, was flying to Senegal, police dispatched by Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s justice minister took control of the grounds of the country’s highest constitutional court. Tusk, a pro-EU liberal and former president of the European Council, governs with a coalition that includes Poland’s left-wing parties.
Police locked out the court’s chief judge, Bogdan Święczkowski, while a judge allied with Tusk declared herself in charge. Nawrocki turned his plane around, returned to Warsaw, and denounced the operation as a forcible takeover of a constitutional body. Poland’s conservatives are calling it a coup, accusing the ruling coalition of using the justice ministry and police to seize control of the court that can strike down its laws.
Shortly after 6 p.m. on Friday, orders signed by Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska appeared on the court’s website. They suspended the chief judge and his deputy for one month and named Korwin-Piotrowska acting head of the court, on the grounds that she has the longest judicial career of any sitting judge.
Korwin-Piotrowska heads Themis, a judges’ association that challenged the previous conservative government over her removal from office. That government’s justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, removed her as vice president of the regional court in Opole in 2017. Tusk’s justice ministry appointed her president of the same court in October 2024, and his parliamentary majority elected her to the constitutional court in March 2026.
Polish law requires incoming constitutional court judges to take their oath before the president, but she took hers at a ceremony in parliament. Nawrocki has never accepted that oath, and neither he nor the court’s leadership recognizes her as a judge.
Police said they acted on letters from Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek and Korwin-Piotrowska. Żurek, who also serves as Poland’s chief prosecutor, is a former judge and was a prominent critic of the previous conservative government’s judicial reforms. After taking office in 2025, he removed 46 court presidents and vice presidents.
In January, Poland’s Supreme Court ruled that he had acted unlawfully in dismissing three judicial officials. Korwin-Piotrowska’s letter warned of possible threats to the lives and health of judges and staff. Officers in riot gear secured the grounds inside the court’s fence and prevented the chief judge from entering. Police said they did not enter the building.
Both suspended judges have ties to the conservative party. Chief Judge Bogdan Święczkowski served as the top deputy to the previous conservative government’s justice minister and was elected to parliament on the party’s ticket in 2011. His deputy, Bartłomiej Sochański, joined the party in 2017 and ran for mayor of Szczecin on its ticket the following year. On the evening of their suspensions, Żurek sent the court five requests, totaling 224 pages, to lift their immunity from prosecution: four concerning Święczkowski and one concerning Sochański. In 2025, the court’s judges had rejected an earlier request from Żurek to lift Święczkowski’s immunity.
To suspend the two judges, Korwin-Piotrowska relied on Article 130 of the law that governs Poland’s ordinary courts, not the law governing the constitutional court. That provision lets the head of a court, or the justice minister, suspend a judge for up to a month. When the judge being suspended is himself the head of a court, only the justice minister can do it. The law does not give that power to an individual judge.
Sochański said he knew of no law that allows anyone to interfere with the court in this way, and he told the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita that a coup was under way. The court’s official account on X stated that Korwin-Piotrowska is not a judge of the court, that Święczkowski remains its chief judge, and that everyone taking part was committing the crime of a coup d’état.
Nawrocki entered the Tribunal early Saturday as protesters gathered outside (CNN). He told Korwin-Piotrowska, Krystian Markiewicz, and Maciej Berek that they were not judges of the Tribunal, then convened urgent consultations over a security threat.
Brussels backed the government. A European Commission spokesperson said appointing eight new members lies within the Sejm’s constitutional powers, and the Commission urged Nawrocki to accept them. The European Conservatives and Reformists group’s co-chairs condemned the government’s actions as a grave violation of the rule of law and backed Nawrocki. U.S. Ambassador Tom Rose called the dispute an unprecedented confrontation over state power and judicial independence. He urged restraint and said Washington would not interfere.
Chaos erupted in Poland last night as globalist forces aligned with the European Union attempted a “coup” on the eve of Poland’s busiest religious festival.
On October 30, armed police occupied Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw, allegedly sent there by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the globalist Eurocrat who is currently the leader of the Polish government. As prime minister, Tusk should not control either this top constitutional court or the presidency.
As Friday night’s constitutional crisis unfolded, Poland’s head of state, President Karol Nawrocki — who was mid-flight on a trip to Senegal — ordered his plane to turn around. He returned to Warsaw where he pushed his way into the nation’s constitutional court, ground zero for the attempted coup.
“At such a moment, the President must be in Poland,” Nawrocki posted on X. “I’m interrupting my flight to Senegal. I’m returning.” His declaration quickly went viral, amassing more than 11 million views around the world in less than 24 hours.
A video posted on X shows President Nawrocki pushing his way through a sea of police in riot gear and straddling a wall and wrought iron fence to the Constitutional Tribunal building.
Nawrocki later issued a statement saying that “a violation of the constitutional order of the Republic of Poland occurred, along with the forcible takeover of a constitutional state organ.”
Łukasz Bernaciński, Ph.D., director of pro-life legal institute Ordo Iuris’s Department of Constitutional Studies, reported that “Under the cover of night and in the absence of the President of the Republic of Poland from the country, the police have forcibly taken control of the empty Constitutional Tribunal building.”
“We call upon all fellow Poles, at the moment of the gravest constitutional crisis in the history of the Third Republic of Poland, to stand in defence of the constitutional order and to repel the coup d’état,” Ordo Iuris urged.
Poles obeyed. Demonstrators confronted the helmeted police, who brandished shields, outside the building. According to reports, at least three were arrested.
I never thought @donaldtusk would sink to such depths as to stage a coup d’état against his own people. I sincerely hope President @NawrockiKn succeeds in his efforts to uphold Poland’s constitutional order. Our hearts go out to the Polish people.
Ordo Iuris expressed its “gravest concern at, and firm opposition to, the forcible takeover of the seat of the Constitutional Tribunal (Trybunał Konstytucyjny) by the police. This operation, carried out under cover of night and while the President of the Republic of Poland was abroad, constitutes an unprecedented assault on a constitutional organ of the State and strikes at the very foundations of the Polish constitutional order.”
“Police officers took control of the empty building of the Tribunal and have since been denying the Tribunal’s security staff, the Vice-President of the Tribunal and its Director entry to the premises,” Ordo Iuris reported amid the turmoil. “Inside the building is Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, a person elected by the Sejm to the office of judge of the Constitutional Tribunal who has not taken the oath of office before the President of the Republic, as the law requires before a term of office may commence. She has signed an order under which she herself is to ‘act in place of” the lawful President of the Tribunal for the duration of his de facto suspension.’”
According to Polish newspaper W Polityce, Rozwój Plus (Ed: “Development Plus”), a parliamentary group founded in 2026 by former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, is calling for the dismissal of Tusk and his replacement with Marek Jurek, the ex-Speaker of the Sejm.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham urged Americans to “watch what the globalists are trying to pull in Poland.” In a graphic, she outlined a five-step plan she believes is now being executed in Poland:
- Forcefully takeover the Constitutional Tribunal
- Oust the President of Poland
- Takeover Poland’s Central Bank
- Introduce the Euro
- Hand over Poland’s gold to the bank in Frankfurt.
“This is not a conspiracy,” noted Ingraham’s graphic. “This is a plan.”
Today, October 31, the Bishop of Świdnica, a city in southwestern Poland, asked Poles to pray for their homeland in this time of crisis.
“In light of the difficult and dangerous social situation unfolding around the Constitutional Tribunal, the Bishop of Świdnica calls on the faithful of the Diocese of Świdnica to pray humbly for the homeland,” wrote Father Marcin Januszkiewicz on X, and continued:
