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The facts are these. There were two options for the Supreme Court: one that it was lawful for the PM to suspend Parliament and the other that it was not. Both had political consequences but both also engage a constitutional principle: the supremacy of Parliament. That's it.
It is extraordinary - and alarming - that the Government should question the authority of a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court. This is a direct challenge to the rule of law. It should bear in mind what Thatcher said: 
And, as a legal matter, if the Supreme Court says it is the law it is the law. Saying "this is the law" is what it is the Supreme Court's job to do. Johnson and Cummings and the other moral detritus they drag in with them have no mandate to question the Supreme Court's decision.
