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Canada (Attorney General) v. Power, 2024 SCC 26 is a 2024 decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on the Crown's immunity for an action arising out of a legislature's enactment of legislation that is later found to be unconstitutional by a court.
The Supreme Court of Canada is the court of last resort and final appeal in Canada. Cases that are successfully appealed to the Court are generally of national importance. Once a case is decided the Court will publish written reasons for the decision that consist of one or more reasons from any number of the nine justice
Decisions that do not note a Justice delivering the Court's reason are per coram. Multiple concurrences and dissents within a case are numbered, with joining votes numbered accordingly. Justices occasionally join multiple reasons in a single case; each vote is subdivided accordingly. Multiple unnumbered reasons are jointly written or delivered.
The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC; French: Cour suprême du Canada, CSC) is the highest court in the judicial system of Canada. [2] It comprises nine justices, whose decisions are the ultimate application of Canadian law, and grants permission to between 40 and 75 litigants each year to appeal decisions rendered by provincial, territorial and federal appellate courts.
The court is giving Trump until February 12 to file an emergency stay request with the Supreme Court, which would stop the clock while his attorneys craft a more substantive appeal on the merits.
Trump's team asked the Supreme Court to reject the expedited timeline and allow the appeals court to consider the case first. [29] [30] On December 22, the Supreme Court denied the special counsel's request, leaving the case to the appeals court. [31] On January 9, 2024, the D.C. Court of Appeals heard arguments in the immunity dispute.
Supreme Court rulings on LGBTQ rights, guns and immigration backed a mainstream movement toward expanding equality, with Trump in a shrinking minority of opponents.
[5] [c 8] The concept of effective representation, as defined by the Supreme Court of Canada in relation to section 3 of the Charter, that electors are not constitutionally entitled to "equality of voting power", but rather to have "legislative assemblies effectively represent the diversity of our social mosaic".