The Croton Chronicle

The Croton Chronicle

Guest Editorial: Stand up for free speech in Croton-on-Hudson.

Did our mayor and village manager ask the village’s Code Enforcement Officer to commit an unconstitutional act and then throw him under the bus?

Sep 17, 2025
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By Paul Steinberg

“It is emphatically the province of the judicial department to say what the law is.”

In 250 years of American history, that is the single most important sentence ever uttered by a court. It is the basis of the rule of law and comes from Marbury v Madison (1803). The great Justice John Marshall wrote that sentence, along with another famo…

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