How the Massachusetts Legislature uses unconstitutional “informal sessions” to pass outrageous laws affecting every citizen
Examples: mandates to raise health insurance costs, imposing radical LGBT agenda, spending millions on pet projects, and more.
As few as 1 or 2 Senators or Representatives meet and “pass” bills before an empty chamber, pretending there’s a legal quorum. Read more about informal sessions.
UPDATED: May 8, 2025
Some of the recent laws passed in informal sessions (more reports to come):
- Four new laws that will RAISE everyone’s health insurance costs – while the Legislature caters to special interests.
- All nursing homes in Massachusetts must now include & celebrate the full LGBT agenda.
- $730 million of “supplemental budget” items - a complicated slush fund of absurd pet projects.
- Strange (and far-reaching) “midwifery” law that will affect all residents by adding more bureaucracy and raising insurance costs.
- Official state training is now required for anyone using a motorboat, jet-skis, and more.
- Legislature votes to flood minority neighborhoods with 195 low-cost liquor licenses. Latest leftist scheme to being “economic equity.”
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Corrupt "informal session" in June, 2024 where three state representatives (standing behind podium, with staff and guards) met before an empty chamber for 14 minutes and voted on 15 bills. [Photo from State House video]Here’s how citizens have started taking action
- Pro-family activists go door to door in State House demanding answers from politicians - after radical bills are passed in informal sessions.
Going back nearly 2 decades: Since 2008 MassResistance has documented the “informal sessions” problem in Massachusetts
- 8/11/2024 - Massachusetts citizens are preparing to derail their despotic State Legislature – by forcing them to follow the law.
- 4/17/2024 - Here’s how to effectively fight back against the out-of-control Massachusetts State Legislature that is taking away our rights
- 10/13/2010 – "Informal sessions" -- an unconstitutional sham on Massachusetts citizens
- 10/6/2010 - Three State Reps and two Senators meet and pass $443 million spending bill!
- 3/27/2009 – "Move Over Law" goes into effect in Massachusetts - passed illegally in phony "informal session" of Legislature
- 1/4/2009 – Massachusetts Legislature continues doing business with no quorum - contrary to Constitution. On New Year’s Eve: 3 Senators meet and pass laws!
- 12/28/2008 – Massachusetts Legislature ignores Constitution - illegally passing laws with no quorum!
Besides informal sessions: Here's what else Massachusetts state government has been doing to its citizens
Massachusetts state government seems to be at war with normality and families.
- Massachusetts Legislature unanimously passes radical LGBT “parentage equality” bill to redefine the family changing the word "mother" to "birthing person" in state law - and more!
- State-funded “Mass. LGBTQ Youth Commission” calls for legalizing teenage prostitution, lowering the age of sexual consent, and more in its new report
- Transgender Day of Visibility celebrated at Mass. State House by prominent lawmakers
More well-known outrages that the Legislature enacted recently in full "legal" sessions:
- Over a billion dollars to house and feed illegal immigrants.
- Taxpayer-funded free tuition to state community colleges (including for illegal immigrants).
- Elimination of nearly all restrictions on abortion and allowing girls of any age to get abortion without parents’ consent.
- Taxpayer-funded free tuition to state community colleges (including for illegal immigrants).
- An extreme anti-gun law that is clearly unconstitutional.
- Taxpayer-funded “sex-change” operations.
(What do these have in common? None of them were passed because average people in Massachusetts were asking for them. All of it was done to please well-funded political special interests. These special interests are skilled and aggressive at lobbying and have agendas that are completely disconnected from the desires of regular citizens. But they have far more influence over our legislators than the citizens who elect them.)
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