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UK Supreme Court judge insists government must provide legal
President of the UK’s Supreme Court, David Neuberger, says the government needs to spell out how British courts should interpret rulings from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) after Brexit.Currently Britain must abide by ECJ judgments but Prime Minister, Theresa May’s government has said that Britain will leave its jurisdiction after Brexit.Britain has begun the …
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Ozubulu…death of the innocent
Yesterday gunmen stormed into a Catholic church in Ozubulu and gunned down members of the congregation who were attending Sunday mass. As the drama unfolded and social media was agog with gory pictures, the rumour mills started grinding and the blame was immediately directed at all sorts of terrorist groups. As the day progressed, however, …
A Grubby, Illegitimate Constitutional Amendment By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
Editorial Chidi gets the politics wrong here. Constitutional amendments are not precise legal and academic excises. It's the juxtaposition of interests, selfish and selfless. It's the nature of breast. Democracy is messy and what is political is legal. Chidi OdinkaluNigeria’s legislators have chosen to trifle with the serious business of constitutional change. Driven solely by …
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When a Candidate Conspired With a Foreign Power to Win An Election – Politico
Richard Nixon’s telephone calls came regularly during the 1968 campaign. And H.R. Haldeman took meticulous notes, jotting down the instructions he received from the candidate.Sometimes Nixon needed to blow off steam: demanding that a reporter from The Washington Post or The New York Times be banned from his campaign airplane for writing an offending story. …
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