https://www.nysun.com/editorials/brexit-the-court-vs-the-queen/90844/
Britain's Supreme Court began its judgment recalling Parliament by claiming it wasn't about Brexit. The question, said the court president, Baroness Hale, was just about whether Prime Minister Johnson's request to Elizabeth II that Parliament should be prorogued was lawful. Not, the judge averred, "about when and on what terms the United Kingdom is to leave the European Union."
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https://www.nysun.com/foreign/boris-johnsonthrows-away-the-scabbard/90815/
https://www.nysun.com/editorials/brexit-boris-turns-to-the-queen/90811/
Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to suspend Parliament to protect Britain's decision to leave Europe is being set down by furious opponents as, in the words of one former chancellor, "profoundly undemocratic." Yet it's hard to think of a jibe more hypocritical. For Mr. Johnson seeks to redeem a Brexit referendum that is one of the great acts of direct democracy in the history of modern politics.
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https://www.nysun.com/foreign/bumpy-ride-lies-ahead-for-brexit/90814/