Posted on 01/24/2017 5:11:46 AM PST by Truth29
LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May must secure the approval of Parliament before she can begin the process of taking Britain out of the European Union, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.
The ruling, which upholds an earlier decision by the High Court in London, creates another hurdle for Mrs. May, who has promised to begin a two-year, irreversible process of exit negotiations by the end of March by invoking the European Union’s Article 50, the legal mechanism for leaving the bloc.
In its ruling, the court noted that Parliament had approved the 1972 legislation that enabled the country to join the European Union and incorporated European law into British law. Leaving the bloc would take away from British citizens a number of rights that had been granted by the bloc.
As a result, “the government cannot trigger Article 50 without an act of Parliament authorizing that course,” David Neuberger, the Supreme Court president, said in announcing the decision, which was approved 8 to 3.
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Could be the first condition is wrong the second is correct that it is unconstitutional to not run this past parliament
Could be the first condition is wrong the second is correct that it is unconstitutional to not run this past parliament
They did this last fall, what’s new about this one?
You can measure the resistance.
This is a higher court and the ruling also concluded that the devolved parliaments would not be involved in the final vote.
Thanks for that!
They wanted a Supreme Court. Now they’ve finally got one.
House of Lords says: “Miss me yet?”
The resistance seems to be crumbling slowly but surely. This ruling won’t change much other than making Brexit a slightly more messy affair. This won’t fundamentally alter the fact that we are leaving, and appear to be leaving by the Hard Brexit route.
The way around this?
Court of Appeal, then a Three line whip in the House.
If the Court of Appeal up hold this, the result will almost certainly be the same in the house.
Will be interesting to see if Theresa really has her heart in this or not.
There are a lot of remainist Tories and the majority is only a slender one. I think the support of Labour may be needed to guarantee the vote. Corbyn has stated that he will vote to trigger it, but he may demand concessions in return, such as trying to stay in the single market, which is something a lot of Tory Remainers may also try to insist on.
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