David Allen Green@davidallengreen
Here is a thread on the actual legal significance of today's exciting Brexit events
Today's exciting Brexit events have no actual legal significance.
The AG's opinion was an opinion.
Today's parliamentary votes are in respect of parliamentary procedure, as opposed to applicable law.
The law has not changed today.
But.
The AG opinion indicates how the ECJ may decide the A50 revocation matter.
The parliamentary votes may steer MPs and thereby the government between the ends of Deal, No Deal, or No Brexit.
The law has not changed, but the politics have done.
Politics and policy happen in a framework of law, and law is shaped and influenced in turn by politics and policy.
Each set parameters for the other.
This is especially true of rules-based and treaty-based entities like the EU.
What is now more obvious than before is that there is a real path now for the UK parliament to "take control" of Brexit policy and to steer it towards the now opening gap of unilateral revocation.
It would be hard, and it is unlikely, but it is now more possible than before.
But today's events need first to be translated into legal(astic) acts: the ECJ needs to adopt the AG opinion, and Parliament needs to vote down the deal.
Once Parliament agrees the deal, then Brexit. Too late to revoke.
Only then is there a viable path for no Brexit.
So, this is a chance for Remainers which was not obvious yesterday. The fog has lifted a bit.
But everything will come down to what the ECJ and the House of Commons now do in the next few days or weeks.
/ends.