Yesterday, Governor Sununu signed HB 440, Rep. Jim Kofalt’s Civil Liberties Defense Act or CLDA, into law. New Hampshire now has a fundamental emergency powers reform in place that will assure our constitutional rights remain secure in declared states of emergency.
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Breaking: New Hampshire Governor Signs Law to Protect Civil Liberties During a State of Emergency
In New Hampshire, RSA 4-45 and 4-47 turned the governor into a King during a state of emergency (declared by that same governor). For the past two sessions, Republicans in the House have been trying to curtail the potential for abuse and the actual abuse we saw during the pandemic panic. And they did it.
Tell Senators to Honor the Deal for State of Emergency Reform
We need your help to encourage the Senate to support HB 275 this week, which is currently sitting idle in the Senate Committee on Executive Departments and Administration.
NH Senate Democrats Just Voted to Allow ‘Suspending’ the Constitution
New Hampshire liberty advocates won a major victory on Wednesday when our State Senate voted to pass HB 440, Rep. Jim Kofalt’s Civil Liberties Defense Act. This bill will prohibit constitutional rights from being suspended during a state of emergency.
Breaking – NH Senate Passes Bill to Protect Civil Liberties during a State of Emergency [Update]
HB440 is an effort to reign in irresponsible abuses of Executive power during a State of Emergency. The House version got gutted in the NH Senate, and a campaign to fix that damage has been underway leading up to today. We have good news.
Civil Liberties Are In Danger After Senate Committee Strips Meat Out of Freedom Bill
As the Legislative Session for 2022 starts to heat up, we bring you a matter of pressing concern that is top of our agenda for the upcoming Legislative session. We hope you join us by supporting our effort to pass the House language to HB 440 and several other important measures this year.
Call To Action: Second Amendment Bills and Some Republican State Senators Need Some “Nudging” for Tuesday
I got an email from a friend of mine reminding me that there are a few Second Amendment bills that are coming up on Tuesday for “Executive Session” (meaning the Committee will vote them Ought to Pass or Inexpedient to Legislate (send to the whole House or kill it now). They’ve been sitting on the … Read more
Your State Senate is Doing The Governor’s Bidding
Word on the street is that the Senate thinks Gov. Chris Sununu did nothing wrong by acting like a king for the past year, and they aren’t willing to cross him, especially because he’s “in the same party” and “so very popular.” (Insert negative exclamation!)
Roll Call : 178 House Reps. Voted to “Infringe” Your Rights at Will
The Constitutions, Federal and State, were crafted to identify natural rights that the government was not permitted to infringe. Free Speech, Assembly, Religious Conscience, Self Defense, redress, and Due Process, to name a few. But 178 NH Politicians voted to infringe them at will.
HB 440: Addressing A Court Opinion Granting Our Governor Kingly Powers During States of Emergency
In the Binford decision, an NH Superior Court Judge accepted that if a Governor of NH declared a State of Emergency (for any reason), nothing in heaven or on earth could stop their exercise of power, including the State Constitution.