My response is: What the hell is there to investigate?
The GOP “leaders” of the House and Senate should simply tell Chris to end his junk-science state-of-emergency (the purpose of which is to promote and advance the Chris Sununu brand, not to protect public health) and restore our civil liberties, or they will hold an immediate vote to do so. And further advise Chris that even if he gets enough GOP Reps/Senators to vote with the Dems to maintain his state-of-emergency, the Legislature will immediately proceed to impeachment.
Needless to say, Hinch and Bradley-Morse won’t.
To be clear, I am certain Bradley-Morse won’t because … like Chris … they are Republicans-in-name-only who aren’t troubled by despotic government and the deprivation of our civil liberties. And because … like Chris … they believe the state-of-emergency benefits them politically.
I don’t know Hinch, but I am not aware of anything suggesting he supports ending the state-of-emergency. Based on that, I think it’s a safe call to also categorize him as masks-and-lockdowns-for-as-long-as-Chris-says-so.
But since we are talking about impeachment, do you know who else deserves to be impeached? Assuming you read the title, you do. And now I will give you three grounds upon which AG MacDonald should be impeached:
Not in any particular order, let’s start with unconstitutionally terrorizing small businesses:
Our government is based on the separation of powers. The Executive Branch … which the Attorney General is part of … has the power to carry out -to execute- the laws. It does not have the power to write its own laws, and then execute those laws however it sees fit.
I’m sure the Sununuphant self-styled, legal-eagles reading this are saying that the Attorney General is simply executing the law … referring to the state-of-emergency law … you know, the law that purports to allow the Executive Branch to do whatever it damn pleases during a state-of-emergency. Well, legal-eagles, I already dealt with that canard in a prior post. The law on which you rely, RSA 4:45 III(e), is unconstitutional:
The Attorney General is an inferior constitutional officer to the Governor. He has no more power than the Governor has under RSA 4:45 III(e), and that statute does not override the constitution and give the Governor the power to write laws (in this case a mask mandate) and impose whatever system of fines he sees fit on those who don’t follow his faux-laws.
The second ground for MacDonald’s impeachment is violating the State constitution (more specifically the separation-of-powers) by “interpreting” the absentee voting law in a manner that substantively rewrote the law. From a prior post:
And the third ground is failing to take the position in the pending Conval education funding lawsuit that the Claremont line of decisions were wrongly decided and should be overruled. From a prior post:
If you have any other ground(s) upon which you think MacDonald should be impeached, please comment below. Alternatively, if you think you MacDonald’s actions and inactions are defensible, please let us know.