Brussels Edition: Court Battle

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While the Brexit turmoil in London transfixes Europe, a different challenge to the east will have some of the EU’s attention today: a lawsuit at the European Court of Justice seeking to undo Poland’s sweeping judicial reforms. European Commission lawyers will try to get an order blocking Poland from enforcing a new law that ousts nearly two-fifths of its Supreme Court judges in what critics have called a political purge. A win would force Poland to comply, at least until the EU’s top court rules on the bloc’s pending case to overturn the law.