Boris Johnson Caught in Supreme Court’s Constitutional Web
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Britain’s top judges moved out of the Houses of Parliament a decade ago. On Tuesday, the 11 Supreme Court justices declared their independence from the building across the road by delivering a stinging rebuke to Boris Johnson.
The panel, sitting in its own building in Westminster, positioned itself as the ultimate arbiter in a constitutional clash and reasserted that Parliament is the senior partner in government.