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Supreme Court Opposition and Marc Nadon

Marc Nadon: But the man who first challenged Prime Minister Stephen Harper's choice of Justice Marc Nadon for the top bench was not in a celebratory mood after playing David to a constitutional Goliath. Marc Nadon appointment rejected by Supreme Court Opposition, Quebec welcome decision, slam appointment Storify: Twitter reacts to Marc Nadon decision Read the Nadon Supreme Court ruling , according to CBC. In an unprecedented reference, the top court agreed by a 6-1 margin that Nadon was not eligible to sit amongst them and that the government could not unilaterally rewrite the Supreme Court Act rules on the composition of the bench. Constitutional lawyer Rocco Galati was in the middle of a month-long sojourn on the Indian subcontinent when word reached him Friday that he'd brought down a Supreme Court appointee and rattled the legal underpinnings of the Conservative government. "When I started this I was very, very clear and convinced that I was right and that this was as clear as a bell to me," Galati told The Canadian Press in a telephone interview from India. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.