Time for a civics lesson for both the Concord Monitor and the Union Leader. First, check out this gem from the Monitor today: "The Senate should embrace the task force’s definition [of an adequate education] and send the adequacy definition on to Gov. Lynch and then to the Supreme Court. The court should then say, fine, now move on to the next task." Memo to Pravda on the Merrimack: It’s the supreme court, not the supreme branch of government. The representative branches don’t need to, and aren’t supposed to, request permission slips from the supreme court. What they "should embrace" is dropping this idiotic exercise of defining an adequate education.
The Union Leader also has some brushing up to do: "Legislators have until July 1 to assert their rightful constitutional authority and take education funding back from the court. The only way to do that is to pass a constitutional amendment that does so." Baloney — the way for the Legislature to "assert their rightful authority" is to tell the Court, in no uncertain terms, to take its July 1st deadline and blow it out its you know what. Constitutional amendments were not intended to act as checks and balances on the courts; they were intended as a way to change the constitution.
