Abbott funding: New Jersey’s court needs a preschool education

Posted on 30 March 2009

I’ve got nothing more to add to this Paul Mulshine column. Here’s a sample:

The great H. L. Mencken famously observed that “A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.”

He seems to have anticipated the antics of the New Jersey judiciary. Consider the very first line in the decision issued last week by the Honorable Peter E. Doyne in the Abbott school-funding case:

“The New Jersey constitution mandates the children of this state are entitled to a ‘thorough and efficient education.’ N.J. Const. art. VIII, sec. 4.”

No, it doesn’t. The clause in question (full text below) prescribes a “thorough and efficient system” of schools. The framers of our 1947 constitution did not include the locution “thorough and efficient education.”

And that’s just the opener. Read the whole thing.

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