Recent Attacks on Judicial Independence: The Vulgar, the Systemic, and the Insidious

Abstract This article offers an opening to Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) situation attacks against the judiciary in this region since 2010. The focus is not primarily on historical path dependence like rest of issue. Instead, aims at nature judiciary. Such have appeared CEE US recent years. Its interest lies explaining similar patterns visible judiciaries CEE. Particularly, it looks current conditions Czech judiciary, political interventions Poland 2015 Hungary 2010, undermining trust towards U.S., where attempts for delegitimizing happened 2016. draws similarities authoritarian governments responses judiciaries. authors highlight diversities countries 30 years after fall communist regime a these resemblances varieties.