Poland’s centrist government says it is restoring judicial independence after years of far-right political interference. Accusations of a coup, street protests, riot police guarding the country's highest constitutional court, and the President cutting short an overseas visit have brought the country's. The police intervention came after Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek said he had requested stripping the court's President Bogdan Święczkowski and Vice-President Bartłomiej Sochański of their.