Thank Your Senator for Protecting Your Civil Liberties
In its first session of the year, the NH State Senate voted to restore the core structure of HB 440, the Civil Liberties Defense Act.
In its first session of the year, the NH State Senate voted to restore the core structure of HB 440, the Civil Liberties Defense Act.
The Senate Judiciary Committee met in an executive session Tuesday to consider the Cornerstone-supported HB 440; to our disappointment, the Committee did not deliver the decision we had hoped for.
On April 9, the New Hampshire House voted to pass HB 440, also known as the Civil Liberties Defense Act or CLDA. This bill is a response to the fact that New Hampshire’s emergency powers laws have been interpreted by courts and state attorneys as allowing the governor to suspend constitutional rights during an emergency.