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Sumption lays into US court

Former UK justice attacks ‘absurdity’ of his US counterparts’ Trump ruling

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Joshua Rozenberg
Aug 28, 2024
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A former justice of the UK Supreme Court has launched an unprecedented attack on its US namesake.

“The United States has never stood in greater need of impartial constitutional arbiters in its highest court, and has never been further from getting them,” Lord Sumption concludes in an essay published today by Prospect magazine.

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