{"id":57157,"date":"2017-01-24T15:40:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T15:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bloomberg_uk_supreme_court_rules_brexit_trigger_needs_parliamentary_vote\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T15:40:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T15:40:03","slug":"bloomberg_uk_supreme_court_rules_brexit_trigger_needs_parliamentary_vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57157","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg) UK Supreme Court Rules Brexit Trigger Needs Parliamentary Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highest U.K. court ruled Prime Minister Theresa May must seek an act of Parliament to trigger the two-year countdown to Brexit, handing lawmakers a chance to soften the government\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n<p>The court ruled against the government by an 8-3 vote, Judge David Neuberger said Tuesday. The judges ruled unanimously, however, that legislatures in Scotland and Northern Ireland don\u2019t get to vote on the Article 50 process that starts to wrest the U.K. from the European Union after 44 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-01-24\/u-k-government-loses-supreme-court-appeal-over-brexit-case\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highest U.K. court ruled Prime Minister Theresa May must seek an act of Parliament to trigger the two-year countdown to Brexit, handing lawmakers a chance to soften the government\u2019s plan. The court ruled against the government by an 8-3<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57157\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,199,168,200,144,133,114,151,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}