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MACDONALD: Judicial Reform for New Hampshire’s Courts

Steve MacDonald

You can’t live free in a state that has allowed its judiciary to self-regulate, to literally police itself, alongside the power to make rules with the force of law. New Hampshire’s courts are a nightmare and the last place anyone wants to find themselves, especially in Family Court. There is a lack of accountability and … Read more

Underwood: Make the Courts Co-Equal Again

Ian Underwood

This little gem made it into the budget bill, HB2, which was passed by both houses and signed by the governor. Legislative Declaration of Authority Regarding Public Education.  In its 1993 and 1997 decisions, in the so-called Claremont series of public school funding cases, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that the New Hampshire Constitution imposes upon … Read more

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MacDonald: A Lousy Nazi AND a Terrible King

Steve MacDonald

The Democrats are doing what they do best. Projecting while yesterday’s last-day drop of US Supreme Court decisions had most right-of-center court watchers relieved. Amy Comey Barrett upped her street cred by dissing dopey Judicial “peer’ Ketanji Brown Jackson, and the day couldn’t get much better after that. Schools can’t force kids to participate in … Read more

The Activist Judges Who Think They Outrank the President

Amil Imani

The American system was founded on a simple idea: three branches of government, each with its distinct role. The president executes the law, Congress creates it, and the judiciary interprets it. However, at some point, activist judges became more than just referees; they began seeing themselves as emperors, wielding gavels like scepters and rewriting the … Read more

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Quote of the Day

Ian Underwood

From Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address: [I]f the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to … Read more

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Pennies from Washington

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

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Yes, Virginia, There Is a ‘Constitutional Crisis’

Steve MacDonald

On September 21st, 1897, The Sun – a New York newspaper – published an editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church. In it, he assured 8-year-old Virgina O’Hanlon that there was a Santa Claus. In 1897, Philip O’Hanlon, a surgeon, was asked by his eight-year-old daughter, Virginia O’Hanlon, whether Santa Claus existed. His answer did not convince her, and Virginia … Read more

A Great Example of Government Protecting Govt From Accountability

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Like NH’s HB1002 (a tax on valid Right To Know / RSA 91-A demands passed by Republicans in the NH House and Senate that greatly hinders citizens from going after otherwise hidden Government records and malfeasance), the Federal Secret Service is now hiding from our Federal Legislators who are trying to get answers about that … Read more

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What Government Should Learn from Sports

Ian Underwood

Major League Baseball (MLB) recently announced some changes to the Rules of Baseball.  Setting aside for the moment the particular details of the changes, or the wisdom of making them, I’d like to take this opportunity to remind people of how the process they went through is a valuable demonstration of how separation of powers should work in government.

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DISQUS Doodlings: No, Lloyd, SCOTUS Didn’t Limit the EPA Powers; Congress Never Gave It That Power to Begin With! Part 1

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The absolute beserk attitudes of the Greenies continues as the SCOTUS decision concerning the EPA’s capability to regulate CO2 emissions from power plants is still reverberating (along with Dobbs (abortion back to the States), NYC (Second Amendment / Conceal Carry), and First Amendment (Religious Liberty for a football coach and religious school student vouchers)). This … Read more

The Great Divide on Article V

Op-Ed

Article V empowers states to limit the federal government and is the megaphone for the peoples’ voice.  This is part three of a how-to manual on limiting the federal government, skipping congress, and going straight to the Constitution. 

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Some Clarity About Vagueness

Ian Underwood

Should it become interested in doing so, here’s a way for the legislature to start taking back some of the power that it’s allowed the judiciary to siphon from it over the centuries.

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Chris Sununu Has Created Two Major Problems for Himself.

Op-Ed

Chris Sununu has created two major problems for himself. He has created a Constitutional Crisis, as the people of New Hampshire no longer trust him. They have declared that they no longer have any obligations to live under an unconstitutional form of government currently being forced on the good people of the State of New Hampshire.

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What’s New in the Impeachment Procedures

What’s New in the Impeachment Procedures


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Much of the attention on House Resolution 660 to advance the impeachment of the President has failed to note the significant differences from resolutions authorizing previous presidential impeachments.  Previous resolutions authorized those impeachment inquiries at the outset.

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Tyranny Comes From Accumulation of Power

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands… may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” – James Madison, Federalist 47  Tyranny comes from accumulation of power in one branch of government. Growth Madison today would be horrified that the administrative state has added both legislative and judicial powers to … Read more

Separation of Powers… Required but Denied… Gundy v. U.S. …

The framers of the Constitution knew the job of keeping the legislative power confined was tricky. They understood doing so is key to the nation remaining a representative republic. The power of the legislative branch couldn’t be trusted to self-policing by Congress. Separation of powers… Often enough, legislators face rational incentives to pass problems to … Read more

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