![Democracy Threatened: Judicial Independence Under Attack in Poland](https://www.jurist.org/commentary/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/10/judge_1540528982.jpg)
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” ~James Madison In the years following the fall of the Soviet Union, Poland emerged as a nation poised to embrace [...]