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Elissa Slotkin Went to Europe to Learn How to Remove a President. Poland Just Showed Us Her Plan.

@amuse U.S. Politics 8 min read

On the afternoon of Friday, October 30th, Poland's president boarded a plane for Senegal. Karol Nawrocki was somewhere over Spain when the news reached the cabin.

Back in Warsaw, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, who had never taken the oath before the president that Polish law requires of a Constitutional Tribunal judge, ordered the suspension of the Tribunal’s president, Bogdan Święczkowski, and its vice president, Bartłomiej Sochański, for one month. She announced that she was now running the court.

Nawrocki told the pilot to turn around around 6:12 in the evening, and by midnight he was standing inside the Tribunal building beside the First President of the Supreme Court, telling the people inside they were not judges. Seven weeks earlier, Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan sat across the table from the men who organized that night.

She went to Warsaw and Budapest in early September, came home, told a Washington think tank that she had dusted off their playbook, and was then caught on hidden camera assuring a voter that the Democrat Party has its own list of signature legal cases ready and that January is when you will see them. That is the whole story, and it is why Tuesday, November…

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