DESPITE valiant attempts from Ruth Davidson and her Scottish Tories, it was inevitable that the democratic outrage we've witnessed over the past few days would pop up at at First Minister's Questions.
There were two key moments in the Chamber where the issue of the Brexit power grab surfaced.
Patrick Harvie, though leading on the Growth Commission, gave First Minister Nicola Sturgeon the first opportunity to seize on.
"I'm not hugely surprised that neither the Conservatives nor the Labour party chose to raise the current constitutional crisis," he said.
And the First Minister duly went on the attack – even turning Tory MSP Adam Tomkins's words against himself.
The second response from Sturgeon was just as pinpoint – and welcome.
SNP MSP Bruce Crawford asked "whether [the First Minister] will provide an update on the impact of the EU Withdrawal Bill on Scotland".
The First Minister replied: "Well the most immediate impact is that the UK Government this week for the first time since the establishment of the Scottish Parliament decided to press ahead with legislation on devolved matters without the consent of this parliament.
"In doing so it has taken an unprecedented step and overturned the rules of our constitutional arrangements which have never before been broken in the history of devolution.
"The overwhelming vote in this parliament was cast aside in just 15 minutes in the House of Comments without any debate and without any Scottish MP having a chance to speak in my view demonstrates beyond all doubt the contempt the Tories have for devolution and the people of Scotland."
Crawford followed up by pointing out that the Tories didn't want devolution in the first place – and were now pressing ahead with a naked power grab for their own benefit.
And here's a clip of Sturgeon's full response to that – the warning she sends to the Tories is well worth watching.
The Tories will have been very relieved when First Minister's Questions was over.
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