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Supreme Court Articles

No blank cheque on Brexit

The supreme court's article 50 ruling has changed very little – Labour must do all it can to stop a hard Brexit, writes Ivana Bartoletti There are no surprises in the supreme court ruling. And that is a good sign. Britain is a parliamentary democracy and parliament...

An affirmation of parliamentary sovereignty

Leave voters should welcome the supreme court's article 50 ruling, writes former Labour Leave general secretary Brendan Chilton The Twittersphere went into frenzy today following the supreme court’s ruling that parliament should have its say on when article 50 should...

We must respect our judges

'Any society in which the safeguarding of rights is not assured and the separation of powers is not observed, has no constitution', so said Montesquieu, the influential French political philosopher in The Spirit of the Laws 1748, whose theory of the separation of...

Confirmation bias

If you are looking for a case study of contemporary American politics, forget the campaign trail for a while and take a close look at the fortunes of Merrick Garland. Apparently Garland, Barack Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, has a resume that ‘makes you want...