A newly sworn-in judge of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal (TK) has said he will refuse to sit on the court until four other judges appointed by parliament earlier this year, but blocked by the president, are allowed to take their seats. In April, after the Sejm had chosen six candidates to fill vacancies on the court, Nawrocki took the unprecedented step of inviting only two of them to be sworn in. The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal (TK) to accept four judges whom opposition-aligned President Nawrocki refused to swear in. Yet for weeks the president refused to confirm whether he would swear him in. In 2015, former PiS-aligned President Andrzej Duda refused to swear in three judges legally chosen by the Sejm.