Poland’s president turns back plane as top court crisis escalates
PM Tusk vows tribunal will function lawfully after judge suspends PiS-appointed head; hundreds protest outside Warsaw court
Polish President Karol Nawrocki abandoned a trip to Senegal late Friday, turning his plane around to return to Warsaw after a judge suspended the head of the country's Constitutional Tribunal, an appointee of Tusk's nationalist predecessor, escalating a battle between Nawrocki and Prime Minister Donald Tusk's pro-European government over control of the judiciary.