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NBC News reported the state lawmakers voted to impeach all four justices over spending issues and abuse of authority. The state lawmakers first voted to impeach Justice Allen Loughry on eight articles after he spent $363,000 in renovations to his office, according to the network. He was reportedly found to have lied to the House Finance Committee about having a $42,000 antique desk and computers, owned by the state, transferred to his home and using state vehicles for his personal use. Justice Robin Davis was impeached after using $500,000 for office renovations, the network added. State lawmakers initially overlooked Chief...

Strafford County Superior Court Judge John Lewis ruled out-of-state students have a right to vote in New Hampshire and directed the state to amend the voter registration form for the presidential election. On Sept. 12, the New Hampshire chapters of the League of Women Voters and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a petition in Strafford County Superior Court – on behalf of four out-of-state college students – to seek relief from with a new law – originally filed as Senate Bill 318 – which requires people to sign a form declaring New Hampshire as their domicile. The order, issued...

IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGES [Shannen Coffin] I believe the editors of NRO are far too dismissive of the importance of impeachment as a check on a runaway judiciary, where they conclude that in today's editorial that "impeachment makes no sense as a remedy for the defects of the modern judiciary." Certainly, the authors of the Constitution did not think it madness. Alexander Hamilton may have lacked the jaded foresight necessary to foresee the degree to which the modern judiciary would encroach on legislative judgments, when he wrote in Federalist No. 81 that those encroachments would "never be so extensive as to...