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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2021-10-19 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] calimac 2021-10-19 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
1) What? I cannot see what the problem is here. What the article reports Raab as proposing is that the mechanism "allow the Government to introduce ad hoc legislation." Where does legislation get introduced? Parliament! Exactly the entity the article is complaining is being evaded. The article can act all shocked that the Government is making the proposals, but the Government introducing legislation into Parliament is the normal way laws are made in the UK. Parliament still has to approve, and it is a rubber stamp to an extent but no more in this case than in any other legislation that the Government proposes, and it does so all the time. Object to the specific content of the legislation, but if you dislike the process that's not a feature of this particular legislation or of anything Raab said.
As for overturning court decisions you don't like, I don't know about the UK but in the US that is also a normal function of legislation. Look at the 16th Amendment to the US Constitution. The US Supreme Court had declared an income tax unconstitutional. So we passed an amendment saying "It is constitutional now."
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[personal profile] dewline 2021-10-19 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
That is terrifying for different reasons.
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