Oleksandr Tupytskyi

He is a candidate of Sciences in Public Administration with a degree in Public Administration Mechanisms as of 2009, where he defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of sciences in public administration on the topic "State mechanism for improving the quality of professional training of judges" with the specialty 25.00.02 "Mechanisms of public administration" at the Donetsk State University of Administration.

Oleksandr Mykolayovych Tupytskyi (Ukrainian: Олександр Миколайович Тупицький; born 28 January 1963), is a Ukrainian former official, lawyer, judge who had been the 12th chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine from 2019 to 2022.

Oleksandr Tupytskyi was born in Biloziria, Ukraine on 28 January 1963.

After finishing school, he did military service.

He worked as a milling machine at the Smila radio equipment factory and the Strommashina factory in Cherkasy.

In 1988, he graduated from the Kharkiv Law Institute, majoring in "Jurisprudence".

He graduated from the Kharkov Law Institute.

F. E. Dzerzhinsky with a degree in law in 1988.

From 1988 to 1993, he was an intern at the Prosecutor's Office of Donetsk, then investigator, then promoted to senior investigator of the Prosecutor's Office of the Kuibyshev district of the city.

Between 1993 and 2010, he became the judge of the Kuibyshevsky district court of Donetsk.

In 2002, he became the chairman of that court.

During that time, he was a member of the qualification and disciplinary commission of the bar of the Donetsk Oblast and a member of the Council of Judges of the Donetsk Oblast.

In 2006, he studied in the United States under the "Open World" program.

He is a candidate of sciences in public administration as of 2009.

In 2010 to 2013, he was elected and worked as a judge in the Donetsk, Lviv, Dnepropetrovsk Courts of Appeal.

He served as chairman of the Lviv and Dnipropetrovsk Courts of Appeal.

On 14 May 2013, he was appointed a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine by President Viktor Yanukovych.

On 14 May 2013, by Decree No. 256/2013, Tupytskyi was appointed a judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.

He took the oath on 15 May.

On 27 March, Zelenskyi signed a decree canceling President Yanukovych's 2013 decrees on the appointment of Oleksandr Tupytskyi and Oleksandr Kasminin as judges of the Constitutional Court.

Thus, Tupytskyi and Kasminin were deprived of their powers as judges of the Constitutional Court and chairman of the court.

He had been the deputy chairman of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine to 2018 to 2019.

From 2018 to 2019, he was the deputy chairman.

On 17 September 2019, at a special plenary session of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, Tupytskyi was elected as the Chairman of the Constitutional Court for a term of three years.

On 29 December 2020, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy removed Tupytskyi from the post of Chairman of the Constitutional Court for a period of two months, but the Constitutional Court ruled the decision of the President illegal and refused to comply with the decree.

The suspension was extended for a period of one month by the Decree of the President of Ukraine.

At the same time, together with his wife, he has been under US visa sanctions in connection with "significant acts of corruption" and "receiving a monetary bribe while working in the Ukrainian judicial system.".

On 29 October 2020, under the chairmanship of Tupytskyi, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine recognized a significant part of the anti-corruption reform in Ukraine as unconstitutional.

The decision was harshly criticized by Ukrainian and international politicians, experts and journalists, seeing it as an attack on the fight against corruption in Ukraine.

On 7 November 2020, activists of the NGO "Anti-Corruption Center" came to his house in Vasylkiv, registered as his mother-in-law, and, after clashes with the police, installed a gallows near the fence.

In December 2020, President Zelenskyi announced that Tupytskyi could not remain in office and should resign.

On 20 December, Zelenskyi signed a decree on the suspension of Tupytskyi for two months from the post of judge of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, based on a request from the Prosecutor General's Office.

The next day, the Constitutional Court declared that by doing so, "Zelensky went beyond the limits of his constitutional powers, violating the Constitution."

The Office of the President of Ukraine called this statement "legally void", the General Prosecutor's Office stated that the President suspended Tupytskyi in accordance with the requirements of the law, and the position of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine was unfounded.

On 19 January 2021 employees of the State Security Department did not allow Tupytskyi to enter the Constitutional Court of Ukraine and his office, after which he called the police and wrote a statement about "obstructing him in the performance of official duties."

On 28 January, Tupytsky filed a lawsuit at the District Administrative Court of Kyiv, demanding to "recognize the actions of the State Security Department as illegal" and to oblige the UDO to "refrain from preventing him from accessing the territory of the Constitutional Court."

On 1 February, Zelenskyi's decree on Tupytskyi's removal from office was challenged in the Supreme Court of Ukraine, but on 3 February, the Supreme Court decided to refuse to open proceedings.

On 8 February, the court refused to enforce the claim, as it concluded that there were no legal grounds for this.

On 26 February, by President Zelenksyy's decree, Tupytskyi was again removed from the position of judge of the Constitutional Court for one month starting from 28 February 2021.

On 17 March 2021, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine was supposed to hold a special plenary meeting to consider the issue of Tupytskyi's suspension, but it did not take place because Tupytskyi himself was not allowed to enter the courthouse.