From ConstitutionallyCorrect.com...

New Jersey judges who legislate from the bench are giving Massachusetts judges (and German jack boots) a run for their money. In a troubling divorce case last week, a Newark family court judge ordered penal charges against a mom merely because she homeschools her children, with no evidence of neglect or even of poor performance, and even though New Jersey law explicitly protects the right to homeschool free from government interference.

The court’s opinion is a judicial temper tantrum. The judge wails that New Jersey law doesn’t fit his idea of what the law should be. Not only does New Jersey not require government monitoring and testing of homeschoolers, the state gives public schools no legal authorization to do so (despite attempts to change the law).

ConstitutionallyCorrect.com is the blog for the Alliance Defense Fund. The author of the piece is Matt Bowman, Legal Counsel in the Alliance Defense Fund's Washington DC office.