Judges in Poland have been taking to the streets to protest the ruling Law and Justice Party’s crackdown on judicial independence. Susan moderates a Transatlantic Democracy Working Group roundtable discussion at the German Marshall Fund in Washington to discuss the latest target in the government’s systematic dismantlement of democratic checks and balances.

 

The Cable is a production of ICWA and the Transatlantic Democracy Working Group.

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Guest

ZUZANNA RUDZIŃSKA-BLUSZCZ

Chief Coordinator of Strategic Litigation, Office of the Polish Commissioner for Human Rights

 

 

MARIA SKÓRA

Head of International Dialogue, Das Progressive Zentrum, Berlin

 

 

MELISSA HOOPER

Director of Foreign Policy Advocacy, Human Rights First

 

 

Hosts

GREGORY FEIFER

Executive Director, Institute of Current World Affairs

Journalist, author of Russians: The People Behind the Power

 

SUSAN CORKE

Director, Transatlantic Democracy Working Group

Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States

 

The Cable is produced by Rebecca Picard

 

 

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