How is the conflict over judicial reforms affecting Polish politics?

Controversy surrounding the Polish government's judicial reform programme has undermined its strategy of pivoting to the centre in the run-up to the country's next parliamentary and presidential elections. But as Aleks Szczerbiak writes, in spite of misgivings about the reforms, the ruling party is in tune with Poles on the social and economic issues they care most about, and the opposition has so far offered little alternative beyond the defence of an unpopular judicial status quo.