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The Republican primary race is about to pass through New Hampshire.
It's a perfect time to ask the surviving candidates what they think of some of the bizarre recent machinations of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, which has taken its crazy train off the rails since the 2010 election gave Republicans a three-to-one majority in that chamber.
In October, the New Hampshire House of Representatives, led by Republican Rep. Dan Itse, passed a measure "repudiating" a decision by the Supreme Court of New Hampshire.
That decision had endorsed the view of the executive branch, which had argued that the legislature could not force the state's attorney general to join a lawsuit against the Obama Administration and the Affordable Care Act.
The legislature, in other words, sought to trump both of the other two branches of state government that were each performing core functions.
On this point, my questions for the candidates are:
If they are elected, are they going to applaud similar moves by Congress to repudiate United States Supreme Court decisions?
Are the candidates, if elected to the White House, going to embrace the notion that national legislators can threaten the Justice Department if federal lawyers choose not to join certain lawsuits?
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...ut-new-hampshires-bizarre-legislature/251026/
It's a perfect time to ask the surviving candidates what they think of some of the bizarre recent machinations of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, which has taken its crazy train off the rails since the 2010 election gave Republicans a three-to-one majority in that chamber.
In October, the New Hampshire House of Representatives, led by Republican Rep. Dan Itse, passed a measure "repudiating" a decision by the Supreme Court of New Hampshire.
That decision had endorsed the view of the executive branch, which had argued that the legislature could not force the state's attorney general to join a lawsuit against the Obama Administration and the Affordable Care Act.
The legislature, in other words, sought to trump both of the other two branches of state government that were each performing core functions.
On this point, my questions for the candidates are:
If they are elected, are they going to applaud similar moves by Congress to repudiate United States Supreme Court decisions?
Are the candidates, if elected to the White House, going to embrace the notion that national legislators can threaten the Justice Department if federal lawyers choose not to join certain lawsuits?
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...ut-new-hampshires-bizarre-legislature/251026/