The facts:
– The oral verdict issued in May mentioned 10 years as a practising attorney in CT to be eligible,
– The written decison, issued 10 days before the election specified the qualifications as 10 years of litigating law before the Bar, trial (before a judge and jury) experience and admiotted to practise in the courts that the AGs department is required to litigate. Jepson at that point in time had none of this experience, no litigation experiencce, no trial experience and only admitted to the lowest court last Decvember. He was and is not qualified to be your Attorney General. Gene
There is no necessary connection between nullification and succession such that one who embraces nullification also affirms secession.
During the Underground Railroad days, when slavery abolitionists secretly transported slaves who wished to be free from the Southern states to Canada, all the abolitionists in New England nullified the perfectly constitutional Fugitive Slave Act, which compelled every citizen to return escaped slaves to their Southern owners.
Ken has shown in these pages that he has an abiding love of liberty. Had he been alive in the dark days preceding the Civil War, one would like to think he would have taken a position against The Fugitive Slave Act similar to other lovers of liberty such as Henry David Thoreau, the author of “Slavery in Massachusetts” and “Civil Disobedience.” Had he done so, he would have been practicing nullification.
The facts:
– The oral verdict issued in May mentioned 10 years as a practising attorney in CT to be eligible,
– The written decison, issued 10 days before the election specified the qualifications as 10 years of litigating law before the Bar, trial (before a judge and jury) experience and admiotted to practise in the courts that the AGs department is required to litigate. Jepson at that point in time had none of this experience, no litigation experiencce, no trial experience and only admitted to the lowest court last Decvember. He was and is not qualified to be your Attorney General. Gene
There is no necessary connection between nullification and succession such that one who embraces nullification also affirms secession.
During the Underground Railroad days, when slavery abolitionists secretly transported slaves who wished to be free from the Southern states to Canada, all the abolitionists in New England nullified the perfectly constitutional Fugitive Slave Act, which compelled every citizen to return escaped slaves to their Southern owners.
Ken has shown in these pages that he has an abiding love of liberty. Had he been alive in the dark days preceding the Civil War, one would like to think he would have taken a position against The Fugitive Slave Act similar to other lovers of liberty such as Henry David Thoreau, the author of “Slavery in Massachusetts” and “Civil Disobedience.” Had he done so, he would have been practicing nullification.