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Supreme Court: Brexit Bill and votes needed
At the moment the Government is only committed to a vote right at the end of the whole process when the chances of getting the UK Government back into negotiations with a new mandate will be zero.
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We speak to Joanna Cherry, who is at the forefront of the Scottish legal challenge to parliament’s suspension.
The highest court in the country heard today that, in the last 50 years, “no prime minister has abused his powers” in the way that Boris Johnson did when he prorogued Parliament for five weeks.
Joanna Cherry, from the Scottish National Party, was at the forefront of the Scottish legal challenge.
A woman who faces a six figure legal bill for telling her ex-husband’s new partner on Facebook that he “tried to strangle” her, has taken her case to the UK’s highest court.
The sexual assault allegations encircling President Trump’s nominee for Supreme Court Judge haven’t stopped his progress to the benches of America’s highest court. He denies the allegations. Last night a number of key Senators backed Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment for the lifetime job. He’s set to be confirmed in a Senate vote later this evening.…
President Trump has leapt to the defence of his Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, who has been accused of sexual misconduct. Mr Trump said it was a “scary time for young men” who could become the subject of false allegations.
Kylie Morris is in Washington, where the Senate has been hearing the testimony of a woman who says she was sexually assaulted by the man President Trump wants to put in the Supreme Court.
The Senate Judiciary Committee says it’s investigating a third sexual misconduct allegation against President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, during his time at high school. Julie Swetnick made her claims in a sworn affidavit. Judge Kavanaugh has described it as “ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone”.
In the United States, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court has arrived on Capitol Hill for his first day of meetings with senators. Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment would cement a conservative majority on the nation’s highest court for a generation, and leading Democrats are vowing to fight it with “everything we have”.
Donald Trump gets to pick a second Supreme Court judge. What could this mean for women’s abortion rights?
The Government’s under mounting pressure to reform Northern Ireland’s strict abortion laws – after Supreme Court justices said that in some cases they were incompatible with human rights legislation. The court dismissed a legal challenge by campaigners – but said the ban needed “radical reconsideration”. One of the women whose case formed part of the challenge said they would…
Tens of thousands have protested – with rallies and candle-lit vigils – even the former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa addressed crowds in Gdansk in scenes reminiscent of the 1980’s. But, so far, to no avail.
Donald Trump says he wants an “elegant and dignified” confirmation process for the man he’s nominated to the Supreme Court. And he’s threatened Democrats who try to block Neil Gorsuch he could use the “nuclear option” to force a simple majority vote.
Parliament will have its say on Britain’s divorce from the EU after the Supreme Court told the Government that it could not trigger Brexit without passing an Act of Parliament first.
At the moment the Government is only committed to a vote right at the end of the whole process when the chances of getting the UK Government back into negotiations with a new mandate will be zero.