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Poland's Government Forcing Supreme Court Justices To Step Down

Justices, including the highest-ranking member of the court, have united in defiance of a new law that would force nearly 40 percent of the court's judges into early retirement.
Polish Supreme Court Justice Malgorzata Gersdorf (foreground) attends a demonstration in Warsaw Tuesday protesting the removal of Supreme Court judges because of a new law lowering their mandatory retirement age to 65. The legislation means 27 of 72 judges — including Gersdorf, the highest-ranking justice — must step down by 12:01 a.m. Wednesday.

Poland is in the grips of a constitutional crisis, with the head of the Supreme Court standing in open defiance of the president — whose party enacted a new law that will force nearly 40 percent of the court's judges into early retirement.

The legislation, enacted on Tuesday, reduces

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