Did we not say this happen, here? I sure as hell,did.
We all knew this would play this way. The vote was not binding.
This reminds me so much of when I lived in California. We always had dozens of ballot propositions, some, like Prop 187, an immigration statute, are quite good.
So the people vote and pass the proposition with a clear majority. Next thing you know, the state Supreme Court is overturning it. Sure, you the people wanted it, but we decided you can’t have it.
Disgusting.
On his blog, Peter Hitchens is describing the situation as a “Constitutional Crisis”.
He’s convinced that Teresa May’s politically correct Conservative Party government will end up faking a Brexit to leave the UK ‘halfway out’ of the EU instead of ‘halfway in’ like it is now.
Parliament already voted to abide by the results of the referendum, when they voted by a huge majority to have the referendum.
That of course was when Remain thought they were going to win.
A supreme court is a new thing in Britain. Hope they like it.
They replace the 1000-year old right of appeal to the House of Lords, in latter days to a committee in that House called the Law Lords. As such, the House of Lords/Law Lords did not violate the principle that the government of the realm was the Crown in Parliament, ultimately responsible to the People (Commons) or the monarch (Lords).
Their shiny new Supreme Court is NOT under the government OR the monarchy. At the time it was created, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, later President of the Supreme Court, expressed fear that the new court could make itself more powerful than the House of Lords committee it succeeded, saying that there is a real risk of “judges arrogating to themselves greater power than they have at the moment”
Smart guy.
Well, this is a surprise.
/sarc
Trump needs to GUT the Federal judiciary. Congress has broad powers to do so.