Click HERE to read Professor Freidman and Professor Duquette’s latest take on the Legislative audit fight at the Massachusetts statehouse. THE AUDITOR STRIKES BACK!
Category: Massachusetts Politics
Auditor DiZoglio’s Legal and Political Attacks on the Legislature and the Attorney General are Becoming More Unhinged and Less Compelling
Click HERE to read Profs Duquette & Friedman’s MLPP post.
Profs Duquette & Friedman Launch “The Massachusetts Law & Politics Project” on Substack
All Posts on the The Massachusetts Law & Politics Project on Substack will also be posted here at MassPoliticsProfs. org. To read the “Welcome” post on MLPP go HERE.
CWB Op-Ed: “DiZoglio misfires in attack on A.G.
Go HERE for the op-ed authored by Professor Duquette and Professor Lawrence Friedman.
CWB Op-Ed: Duquette & Friedman Propose Constitutional Amendment
The century-old flaw that let Question 1 go the ballot
The SJC Should Protect the Bay State’s ‘Exceptional’ Legislative Supremacy by Rejecting the Auditor’s Constitutionally Irresponsible Powerplay
Question One, which was passed on the 2024 Massachusetts statewide ballot by a wide margin, amended the state auditor’s authorizing statute. The amendment explicitly makes the state legislature itself subject to the auditor’s existing authority in exactly the same manner as are all the administrative departments, offices, commissions, and authorities of the Commonwealth’s government. Instead…
Support the Rule of Law: Vote NO on Q1
State Auditor Diana DiZoglio, wants to make herself – and all of her successors – into taxpayer-financed political activists with the authority to ignore the state constitution’s most fundamental principles and to replace the will of the voters and their elected representatives at the state house with her own. Question 1 WILL NOT ratify or…
Globe Gets the Big Stuff Wrong on Question One
Before reading my analysis below, go HERE and read the Globe’s endorsement of Question One. Done yet? If so, read on. I was quite pleased when the Boston Globe editorial board invited me to meet with them to explain why voters should reject or pass on Question One on the 2024 state ballot. The measure…
Massachusetts Exceptionalism is getting its due at CommonWealth Beacon
The newly rebranded CommonWealth Beacon has put the concept of Massachusetts exceptionalism front and center lately with several thoughtful pieces about the quality of life in the Bay State based on the results of a brand new CWB/MassInc poll of Massachusetts residents. Michael Jonas’s Putting Massachusetts Exceptionalism to the Test asks whether Bay Staters can…
Attorney General Campbell got the legislative audit question exactly right.
Click HERE for the CommonWealth Beacon story about Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s rejection of Auditor DiZoglio’s claim that her office has the legal authority to audit the legislature, with or without the legislature’s consent. Campbell’s analysis is entirely consistent with my earlier conclusion that DiZoglio’s push for legislative audit authority is a “well-intentioned bad idea.”…