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NH Supreme Court justices appear to have issued a false public statement about a court staff re-organization while showing financial favoritism to a certain staff member and while ignoring public concerns about appearances of bias in the Rand school funding case.
The attorneys for the Rand education funding case are asking again for the recusal of Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald and associate justice Daniel Will from deciding the state’s appeal at the Supreme Court.
Chris Sununu and Kelly Ayotte have broken with the tradition of maintaining a bipartisan balance on the New Hampshire Supreme Court so all five justices are Republicans now instead of a 3 to 2 split along party lines at a time when the court is facing heightened public scrutiny and Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald is out on indefinite medical leave.
The state Judicial Conduct Committee has filed formal charges against retired state Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi for conversations she had while on the bench with then-Gov. Chris Sununu and PDA Chairman Steve Duprey about her husband Geno Marconi when he was the director of Ports and Harbors and under criminal investigation.
Almost 18 months after he was convicted of four misdemeanor domestic violence charges and acquitted on five counts, former state Senator Jeff Woodburn says he has carved out a much happier life than the one he knew in politics.
The report released Tuesday by the Task Force on Domestic Violence Cases in the New Hampshire Judicial Branch finds there are not enough resources in courts for victims of domestic violence, and there’s a lack of judicial accountability for when things go wrong.