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A LIGHT ON PROROGATION Patrick Lawrence’s article on the Supreme Court’s prorogation decision is welcome (“ERROR OF JUDGMENT”, JUNE). As he notes, the Supreme Court’s analysis of justiciability plainly conflated the existence of the power to prorogue with the manner of its exercise. By requiring the government to have “reasonable justification” to exercise the prerogative power, the decision will surely now render other uses of the prerogative a matter for the courts.

The government would likely have had more success if it had acted

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