BREAKING: Magali Lafourcade, judge in the case of Marine Le Pen, disclosed that she received a visit from 2 envoys of Trump in May 2025 who tried to pressure or lobby her in the case. The request to meet them came from the US Embassy in Paris. She immediately announced the

The EU's top court has ruled that Poland's Constitutional Tribunal violated EU law when it rejected the primacy of EU law and the validity of EU court judgments It also found that the tribunal isn't a valid court as it contains unlawfully appointed judges

What do judges do, and how do they perceive their role when democracy is under strain?

Minister of Justice just send legislation to Parliament about judges selected by the council for judiciary under political control of the former PIS-government. These judges loose their positions.

@MedelEurope expresses serious concerns over the recent attacks on the #French judiciary #RuleOfLaw requires that criticism of judges’ decisions never turns into a delegitimization of their constitutional role Traduci post

A new level of political attack on #judges by 🇭🇺PM Orbán: "Bugs have made it through winter. We will dismantle the financial machine that has been using corrupt$ to buy politicians, judges, journalists, fake NGOs and political activists. We will eliminate the entire shadow army."

Markiewicz prekers the fast track in dealing with neo-judges

🇭🇺Chief Justice ordered European law court advisors to put the protection of constitutional identity and Christian culture above EU law in their work. He also set up a new department to help develop a national position on EU matters. 👀A staggering story: https://t.co/xKkA6PNPGu

Today, Markiewicz, chair of the Committee for the restoration of Judicial Independence, proposed two tracks: a fast track (dismissing neo-judges by law) and a slower track (dismissal by decision of the Council for the Judiciary, after its reform.

11th January: Message from the UN Special Rapporteur on the “Judicial Independence Day — 1000 Robes March”

☝️🇭🇺Judicial Office President states that judges are free to express their views on the court administration so the Chief Justice's letter which implies sanctions "completely differs in content and style from organisational norms and ethical principles". https://t.co/PYoZyKPzwG

It is a European law rule that judges are allowed to express their opinion on reforms affecting their independence and work.

The state of judicial independence in Hungary: The government starves judges of salary increases for years and then gets them to agree to raises in exchange for their complicity in judicial "reform" that further reduces their independence. . . .

Chief justice Roberts warns intimidation and violence risk judicial independence | US supreme court | The Guardian

Courage

In today’s conference at the University of Katowicze the subject of the status of neo judges was discussed. My message: European law gaves a large discretion to Poland to restore the independence of the Judiciary. Have the coverage to use it.

This is an unprecedented, huge development - 700 Hungarian judges are publicly protesting against government's reform plans. 🇭🇺Judges feel that the current National Judicial Council is not standing up for judicial independence and therefore they must act. https://t.co/CQPqBobbeN

I honor my friend and colleague Katarzyna Gonera for her wisdom and courage

ECJ in a Romanian case: a national court is not required to apply a decision of its constitutional court that infringes EU law https://t.co/bloxCQbakW

Four European judges organizations appeal against the judgment of the EU first instance court, refusing them standing as to a Council decision ignoring judgments on judges of the ECJ.