Ed Smith, Chief of Staff
Assemblyman Michael Doherty (Future Senator)
Displaying the B. Bruce Anderson Memorial Flag
On His Desk - February, 2008
"The New Brunswick Massacre of 9/10/47"
By Ed Smith
The following article appeared in the Community News - PO BOX 557, Woodbine, NJ 08720 - in the week of October 30, 1997.
50 years ago a quiet seizure of power took place at Rutgers University, in the State of New Jersey. While families looked to the future, trying to forget the fresh and horrible memories of the war, politics were not the big subject of the moment. The armies for the different competing branches of government were still vying for power, waging their century old legal war. The official winner, on September 15, 1948, was to be the judicial Branch.The victims were to be the people of the State of New ]ersey, doomed to live in a state totally under the control of the Supreme Court. In fact, in 1950, the Supreme Court decided that its rulemaking power was exclusive, displacing any legislation on practice and procedure in the courts (Winberry v. Salisbury).
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