First, I would be remiss if I didn’t note that I became aware of this latest assault on liberty in New Hampshire from the NeverTrump, RINO website NH-Journal, a/k/a NH-NeverTrump-Journal. So what happened is a January 19th decision by the New Hampshire Supreme Court that essentially said you have no right to expressive speech in New Hampshire (here’s the link):
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State Supreme Court Decision Preventing Election Integrity Reveals How Feckless and Useless the NHGOP is.
So I recently posted about Friday’s UNANIMOUS New Hampshire Supreme Court decision finding that the State Constitution somehow prohibits requiring proof of domicile to vote … which enables the Democrats to import thousands of “voters” in the weeks and days before an election, who will then vote Democrat and disappear into the political ether. The … Read more
The ConVal Education Funding Decision … or How Chris Sununu Wasted Three Supreme Court Nominations
Here is the most important (and remarkable) part of the decision that was issued on March 23rd, but I have not had the time to comment on it until now.
Breaking News: Supreme Court Grants Emergency Stay in Warden Case
In a last minute hail mary plot twist, the School Charter Commission Election will be held tomorrow as scheduled. After Judge Anderson denied both a motion for reconsideration and a motion to stay, the City of Manchester filed a writ of prohibition to the Supreme Court of New Hampshire. The Supreme Court granted the emergency … Read more
Who’s Influencing State Supreme Court Nomination?
What follows is cross-posted from a Cornerstone alert sent out today, with fair warning about Executive Councilor(s) trying to inject abortion into the nomination of Gordon MacDonald to the state Supreme Court, and with due acknowledgment that I’m a Cornerstone consultant. Governor Sununu has nominated Attorney General Gordon MacDonald to be Chief Justice of the New Hampshire … Read more
The New Hampshire Supreme Court is About to Get a Lot More Liberal/Activist
Governor Sununu has nominated his Attorney General, Gordon MacDonald, to replace retiring Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Lynn. Lynn was the closest thing to a judicial conservative on the Supreme Court. There are unmistakable signs that MacDonald is not. First, let’s define judicial conservative. A judicial conservative is a completely different animal from a judicial liberal … Read more
The #VolinskyAgenda’s Silly Coup Attempt
This breathless tweet from Democrat operative -oops, I mean WMUR crack political reporter- Johnny DiStaso: In the underlying article, DiStaso writes: In a statement to WMUR, Volinsky said, “A slim majority of the New Hampshire Supreme Court decided last year that the Executive Council has a role in advising the governor with respect to vetoes. … Read more
Opportunity is Knocking. Will Chris Sununu Answer the Door?
So ConVal School District has sued over education funding. A copy of the lawsuit can be found in this New Hampshire Public Radio article. Essentially, ConVal urges the State Supreme Court to reprise its ongoing role as State Supreme School Board and order that the State has to use ConVal’s formula to determine the “cost … Read more
Something Steve’s Post on the Florida Supreme Court’s Recent Education Funding Decision Made Me Think Of …
Steve MacDonald recently posted Florida Court Invokes Separation of Powers in Refusal To Play ‘Adequacy’ Game in Public Education on Granite Grok. You should read it. You should also read the decision. As a parenthetical note, the Florida constitution -before the amendment in issue in the decision- actually contained the word “adequate”: Prior to 1998, article … Read more
How we’ll get a state income tax
I was in the audience last night at Richards School in Newport for Andru Volinksy’s dog and pony show on school funding in New Hampshire.
I got the chance to ask a question, which was, roughly: Is there any interpretation that the Supreme Court could come up with, that is so outlandish, so contrary to common English usage — like deciding that from now on, ‘green’ actually means ‘blue’, or that in Article 19, the word ‘all’ now means ‘some’ — that the legislature would be justified in saying, ‘No, we’re not going to listen to you’?
KRISTIN RUGGIERO GOES TO THE SUPREME COURT
“Liars are always ready to take oaths.” —Vittorio Alfieri
On Wednesday, September 21, The New Hampshire Supreme Court heard from Kristin Ruggiero. Kristin seeks to overturn her convictions arguing that the court should have excluded a photo of her cell phone number, and an intercepted telephone conversation that served as the evidence that brought her to her current demise.
Kristin Ruggiero was sent to Jail in May of 2010, convicted of twelve counts consisting of lying and falsifying physical evidence. Kristin had tried to do what many before her have done and gotten away with: Using the court system to exact a personal vendetta against her ex-husband Jeffrey Ruggiero.
In oral arguments before the Court, Attorney Mark L. Sisti argued that the evidence used to convict Kristin should have been thrown out because it was disqualified under N.H. RSA 570-A:6 because in New Hampshire, her consent was not obtained by the parties in South Carolina to make the intercept. New Hampshire commonly referred to as a, “two party” state, requires consent of all parties before any recording may be made, while South Carolina does not. Sisti concedes that, while no crime may have been committed by the recording because the interception took place in South Carolina, A New Hampshire resident still has the expectation of privacy under the statute, and the evidence should have been excluded. Sisti essentially argues for an absolute long-arm immunity without consideration to laws of extra-territorial consequence. (Listen to the arguments HERE).