Various villains from the ruling system can blackmail others with their principles as much as they want, but it can only be defeated until they step down and stop taking money.
Justice Minister Adam Bodnar probably thinks he’s being very clever. Several Supreme Court judges think the same, but more on that later. Bodnar found out that if Law and Justice appeals the National Electoral Commission’s decision to reject the PiS election commission’s report, and the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs, the only body competent to hear such complaints, finds the complaint well-founded, there is no need to respect such a ruling at all. Not to mention that the December 13 coalition, its media and its shills from various quarters could (probably with willingness and commitment) complain that the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs’ ruling means an automatic acceptance by the National Electoral Commission of the rejected PiS election commission’s financial report.
Adam Bodnar asserted that “such a judgment may be flawed precisely because we doubt that it is [Izba Kontroli Nadzwyczajnej i Spraw Publicznych] it is a court after all. Keep in mind that this is not just an assessment made by the Court in Luxembourg or the Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in the case of Lech Wałęsa v. Poland, but we also have three judges from this chamber who refused to judge precisely because of the status”.
Adam Bodnar is a senator and also Minister of Justice, just as Donald Tusk is Prime Minister, and more than a hundred representatives of the December 13 coalition are deputy ministers, because the validity of the elections expired on October 13, 2023. decided by the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs of the Supreme Court. If it is not a court and you can trust its rulings, then we have an illegal government and an illegal Minister of Justice, Bodnar, and by the way, an illegal senator, Bodnar. If that is so, the government will be dissolved, as will the Sejm and the Senate. And Adam Bodnar and his company will return the money that was collected during the first session of parliament and from the moment they took power in the government. Honor and dignity, and especially the interpretation that Mr. Bodnar eagerly puts forward, do not allow the illegal taking of money. Give it back and apologize.
If the government and both houses of parliament are dissolved, there is no point in holding new elections as long as the current system of the Supreme Court exists, because the validity of the elections would have to be decided again by the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs. Of course, Bodnar and his comrades could take money again for some time, and in fact for years (as for money for work or laziness in the government, it would not be so certain, because millions of Poles probably already have this government), but what sense would it make to give it away, since it would be Groundhog Day. But if Mr. Bodnar is such a saint, let him decide that he is illegal and get rid of the money. The same institution, simply because of its status, cannot be legal one time (especially in terms of money) and completely illegal (in terms of decisions) at other times. Either all these guys fall into a tree to straighten bananas, or they keep their mouths shut and stop doublethinking.
Now we can return to the three judges cited by Adam Bodnar as evidence that the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs is not a court of law. These are real heroes. These men, that is, Leszek Bosek, Grzegorz Żmij and Paweł Księżak, with their last strength, will and honor, and because they had a strict connection with the legal absolute, refused to hear cases in the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs, where they work, i.e. they do not work. They refused because they are “neo-judges”. They work hard until such changes in the law are introduced that will result in the disappearance of the “neo” from the definition of their status.
The heroism of the three judges is even greater because, before taking office at the Supreme Court, they took an oath before the President of the Republic of Poland, without which they simply would not be judges. And they would not receive a pretty penny every month. They could refuse to take the oath, not take positions and not collect stinking money, because they were sitting in a chamber that is not a chamber and not a court. But they held their noses and the money started flowing into their accounts. And the funniest thing is that by refusing to rule in the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs, they did not stop taking money. It is a good deal: do nothing and get paid the same as for the work. And yet you are a saint. A similar hero is the “neo-judge” Jacek Widło of the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court, who also rebelled and did not hear cases. But he did not rebel against the payments.
All these gentlemen can blackmail their colleagues (morally) with their principles, but they can only be defeated until they resign and stop taking money. Without that, their heroism is just business. Just like the existence of the government, the Sejm and the Senate, which are set up in such a polluted way. But apparently the old saying “pecunia non omelet” (or something like that) applies.
Source: wPolityce