Police took up positions around Poland's Constitutional Court after the tribunal's president was suspended. Officers held the line and blocked opposition politicians from getting through to the building. The standoff turned the court into the focal point of a political crisis. President Karol Nawrocki, a nationalist, reacted by cutting an international trip short. He said he interrupted a flight bound for Senegal so he could return to the country and deal with the crisis personally. The suspension at the center of the dispute remains the flashpoint around which the confrontation has formed.