Commissar Brady Petitions the Politburo to Acknowledge That Litigants Exist

Commissar Brady Petitions the Politburo to Acknowledge That Litigants Exist

Senate Decree SD.3873, filed by Senator Michael D. Brady, instructs the Commonwealth Soviet to ensure that all Massachusetts litigants receive due process of law — a protection already guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the federal constitution, and by Article XII of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, but apparently requiring restatement.

The petition was filed April 30, 2026 and referred the following day to the Joint Committee on Rules of the two branches — the institutional equivalent of a filing cabinet. Brady, who represents the Second Plymouth and Bristol District, has submitted this decree before; a companion measure, H.1678, was filed in the same session by delegates in the lower chamber. What specific due process failures the bill proposes to remedy is not specified in the petition text, which at this stage contains no operative legislative language.

Until the bill’s full text is reported out of committee, the precise mechanism of relief — who benefits, what courts must do differently, and what, if anything, it costs the People’s treasury — remains classified. The Rules Committee has not scheduled a hearing.