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For Americans wondering what the hell is happening in Poland today: Poland is having a constitutional crisis, and apparently nobody can agree on who gets to enforce the Constitution. Here’s the background: Poland has a conservative president, Karol Nawrocki, and a liberal prime minister, Donald Tusk. When conservatives were in power, they overhauled the courts and appointed judges. Liberals called it illegal. Now liberals are in power and trying to undo those changes. Conservatives are calling that illegal. Naturally, everyone claims they’re defending democracy. Here’s what happened today: • A judge announced the suspension of the Constitutional Court’s conservative chief justice and his deputy. • Police secured the court building and reportedly prevented the chief justice from entering. • The court’s official X account called it a “coup d’état.” • The justice minister is seeking to lift the judges’ immunity to pursue criminal charges. • Protesters gathered outside, and several people were detained. • Poland’s president reportedly cut short his trip to Senegal to return home. Imagine Democrats and Republicans fighting over who controls the Supreme Court, while police secure the building and both sides accuse each other of staging a coup. The entire dispute is about who has the legal authority to interpret the Constitution, except neither side agrees on who gets to decide that either.