History might have stopped for the Polish Constitutional Court in 2015–2016. After thirty years of building an impressive resume as one of the most influential and successful European constitutional courts and living proof of ‘the rule of law in action’, the Court has fallen under the relentless attack of a right-wing populist government and succumbed to it. This paper moves beyond the hitherto dominant perspective of ‘here and now’ and lawyers’ fixation on ‘the boat’, and instead focuses more on the journey and important lessons the journey might teach us and enhance the understanding of ‘our boat’. The Polish case (‘the boat’) is much more than just an isolated example of yet another government going rogue. An important European dimension colors what has transpired in Poland over the last twenty months. To understand what has happened in Poland and why, one has to take a longer view and revisit not only its 2004 accession, but also its 1989 constitutional moment. The constitutional debacle in Poland must be but a starting point for a more general analysis of the processes of the politics of resentment and constitutional capture that strike at core European principles of the rule of law, separation of powers and judicial independence.

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占领波兰宪法法庭及其他地方：制度、忠诚和法治的变化

2015 年至 2016 年，波兰宪法法院的历史可能已经停止。作为欧洲最具影响力和最成功的宪法法院之一以及“法治在行动”的活生生的证据，经过三十年的建立令人印象深刻的履历，该法院已陷入右翼民粹主义政府的无情攻击，并屈服于它。本文超越了迄今为止“此时此地”的主流观点和律师对“船”的执着，而是更多地关注旅程和旅程可能教给我们的重要教训，并增强对“我们的船”的理解。波兰案（“船”）不仅仅是另一个政府流氓的孤立例子。一个重要的欧洲维度为过去 20 个月在波兰发生的事情着色。要了解波兰发生了什么及其原因，我们必须从更长远的角度看待并重新审视波兰 2004 年的加入，以及 1989 年的宪法时刻。波兰的宪法崩溃必须只是一个起点，可以更广泛地分析怨恨和宪法俘获的政治过程，这些过程打击了欧洲法治、分权和司法独立的核心原则。