| Bofferbrauer2 said: Can they even do so like in the US? After all, they are appointed by the Queen and the Lord Chancellor, also appointed by the Queen, has the last word on it. Also, I don't see the supreme court becoming nearly as partisan as the american one. |
Yes, there is a way to actually politically influence the British judiciary ...
The Lord Chancellor is appointed by the queen on the advice of the Prime Minister itself!
The Lord Chancellor can theoretically just simply deny approving court justices from the selection committee until it can hit a justice they would prefer to appoint which could be a brexiteer justice. If you think courts can get away with appearing as being impartial then that is simply not true because there is bias in every human conscience which does not preclude political bias as well ...
Seeing as how the UK doesn't have a codified constitution, supreme court justices in Britain arguably have more power than their American counterparts since they can write the constitution itself (more powerful than even the parliament) so it's far more worth it to put their selection under political pressure than it is in America even if their term limit ends at the age of 70!
Just have to wait for old farts like Lady Hale for their mandatory retirement and then someone can stack the courts in their favour so that we can wait for the day of just 'when' to challenge the european communities act as being 'unlawful', haha ... 
