India, May 16 -- Many issues arise from the presidential reference listing 14 questions that was made to the Supreme Court this week, in the aftermath of the apex court's judgment in the case involving the pendency of gubernatorial assent for a clutch of Bills passed by the Tamil Nadu assembly. As is often said, the Supreme Court is also a political power centre. The drastic effects of the judgment by the Pardiwala-Mahadevan Bench that evolved the idea of deemed assent for 10 Tamil Nadu Bills that were pending with the governor are quite visible. Within hours of the judgment, Tamil Nadu notified all the laws that had been detained by the constitutional procedure of gubernatorial assent for quite a long time. Deadlines were set by the cour...