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COLQUHOUN: 75 is Too Late – Prioritizing Judicial Performance Over Tenure in NH

November 24, 2025 Laura Colquhoun

Maintaining High Performance and Efficiency on the Bench Demands a Firm Retirement Standard, Not Political Convenience. New Hampshire voters have already spoken, rejecting a constitutional amendment to raise the mandatory retirement age for judges from 70 to 75. Yet, despite this direct public feedback, this costly and ill-advised proposal, CACR9, is back on the legislative … Read more

Pennies from Washington

March 7, 2025 Ian Underwood

The Judicial Branch, apparently unconcerned about that whole separation-of-powers thing, is telling the Executive Branch what to do. In particular, it’s saying that the Trump Administration has to distribute $2 billion in foreign aid, even though it contains substantial amounts of wasteful, fraudulent, and harmful spending. Ideally, President Trump would take a page from Andrew … Read more

Numbers aren’t Principles

July 3, 2023July 3, 2023 Ian Underwood

There’s a saying in software that the only numbers you should be seeing in code are zero, one, and infinity. If you’re seeing other specific numbers (e.g., there can only be 140 characters in a message, or 255 characters in a filename, or a finite number of elements in a list), then someone is being lazy.

Federal Farmer: Will the Judiciary Preserve or Destroy Liberty?

March 8, 2023March 7, 2023 Op-Ed

While many anti-federalists, including Patrick Henry, regarded the judicial branch of the federal government under the proposed U.S. Constitution with deep suspicion, the Federal Farmer took a more moderate, albeit guarded stance.

Chanelle Bjelkengren - You tube hearing screen grab

Camp Constitution Offers Judge Free Tuition to Avoid Further Embarrassment When Questioned About the Constitution

January 28, 2023 Op-Ed

On January 25, during her confirmation hearing in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Charnelle Bjelkengren was asked by Senator John Kennedy if she knew what Article V of the U.S. Constitution does. She said that it didn’t come to mind.

The NH Courts are Deliberately Denying Public Access to Public Cases

March 9, 2022 Op-Ed

Women and children are dying, missing, and maimed based on NH family court rulings. NH is tied with Mississippi and Maine for last – in giving the public computerized access to court records.

A Hostile Takeover of the Judiciary

January 14, 2021
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In today’s America, we the people are not supporting the fundamentals of our system of government. That would seem like the bare minimum for America to continue to exist. So let’s look at an issue of the day and see if it gives us any insight. How has court-packing become a serious discussion topic?

As Predicted – Democrats will Remove (Impeach) Trump’s Judges if they Have the Votes

October 27, 2020October 27, 2020 Steve MacDonald

When people ask me about the election, I tell them this. If Democrats keep the House and take the Senate, job 1* will be to impeach Trump. Job two will be to impeach Justice Kavanaugh. Job Three will be to vacate Trump’s Federal judiciary.

No, Supreme Court Justice Roberts can’t Stop Trump from Nominating Another Justice

September 23, 2020 Skip

For background: US Constitution, Section 2: Powers of the Presidency “…He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur;”

The Judiciary has Grown More Powerful than America’s Founders Intended

February 12, 2025February 20, 2020 Mike Rogers

About two weeks ago U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs of North Carolina issued an injunction. Her injunction bars the Trump administration from implementing a new policy. The policy changes how the government calculates the duration of an illegal immigrant’s unlawful presence in the country.

President Trump Sets Another Record

January 20, 2020 Steve MacDonald

President Trump’s economy is impressive. Record employment for minorities. Record wage growth, especially among lower and middle-class workers. All great things created by tax cuts and trade policy and deregulation. But he’s got another record about which to crow.

Quick Thought – another case of Trump’s Shiny Objects on top, actions underneath

December 17, 2019 Skip

Let me be clear: by “underneath”, I don’t mean under handed. I just meant while his tweets and his off-the-cuff speeches keep everyone looking at those “Shiny Objects” while he is accomplishing a lot underneath everyone’s radar (especially our “vaunted” MSM that he ties up in knots on just a mere whim). Example #1,849,456: This … Read more

Go! Nadler’s “Jerry” mandered Congressional District Has Diversity Issues

December 6, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Nothing has enough color anymore. Not the Granite State (White is not a color). Not Congressional hearings. Not even diversity-challenged Democrat Congressman (and Judiciary Committee Chair) Jerry Nadler’s district.

US Senate Confirming MORE Judges Nominated by Trump

October 16, 2019

As of yesterday, October 15, the Senate had confirmed 152 of President Trump’s judicial nominations. 2 Associate Supreme Court Justices (Kavanaugh and Gorsuch,) 43 Appeals Court Judges, 105 District Judges, and 2 International Trade Court Judges. The winning is continuing, right now. They’ve confirmed 3 more District Court judges and are voting on one more. … Read more

While Libs Rant About Russia and Racism Trump is Flipping the Federal Judiciary

July 22, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Mr. Trump’s legacy may not include a completed border wall. But it looks like he could end up with something just as good. Maybe better. He is untangling the Federal Judiciary from the tentacles of activist liberal judges. And he has Democrats to thank for it.