A Republican activist and attorney in New Hampshire has been found dead under suspicious circumstances, according to local reports.
Alexander Talcott, 41, was found dead in his Durham home on Saturday with a stab wound to the neck, according to WBTS-CD. Police have ruled the death a homicide after the medical examiner’s office released its findings.
The state director of the New Hampshire chapter of the Republican National Lawyers Association, William O’Brien, spoke highly of Talcott in a statement provided to WBTS.
“His unwavering belief in liberty, free markets, and limited government resonated deeply in his role as a lawyer,” O’Brien noted. “Within the RNLA, his leadership was unwavering in promoting our shared values, ensuring every member felt empowered and well-prepared.”
According to WMUR-TV, Talcott served as the leader of the RNLA in 2021.
Talcott also mentioned the GOP primary debate last week in a post to the X platform.
NEW: Officials investigating a suspicious death in Durham, New Hampshire, have ruled it a homicide and released the name of the 41-year-old man who was killed. https://t.co/55h63iBo1p
— NBC10 Boston (@NBC10Boston) August 27, 2023
Pence line for Vivek next debate?—from Jim Carrey’s story about Tommy Lee Jones saying to him, “I cannot sanction your buffoonery.”
<<zing>>
— Alex Talcott (@AlexTalcott) August 24, 2023
Others memorialized Talcott on the platform as well.
Crazy, RIP AT. One of the smartest men to ever walk the earth. An amazing mentor, teacher, and provider to those who knew him. Everyday we need to tackle the day with the same ambition as he did.
— Daws (@dawson_hebert) August 28, 2023
No arrests have been made in the case, reports added.
GOP activist Alex Talcott fatally stabbed in New Hampshire home, no arrest made https://t.co/N2oseRa3Hl via @nypost
— Tom Burke (@GypsyJoker44) August 28, 2023
That said, authorities are reportedly considering the possibility that whoever stabbed Talcott in the neck could have been acting in self-defense. The New Hampshire Department of Justice suggested it had identified additional parties involved in the killing on Monday, according to Law & Crime.
“Parties involved in the incident have been identified and based on the information known to investigators there is no danger to the public,” the state DOJ said in a statement.
Talcott is survived by a wife and three children.
Meanwhile, New Hampshire’s Republican secretary of state appears to be plotting to keep former President Donald Trump off the 2024 presidential ballot even though he has yet to be convicted of any crimes.
David Scanlan said he is consulting with the New Hampshire attorney general, John Formella, also a Republican, to see if it is possible to keep Trump off the ballot under a provision of the 14th Amendment.
“As secretary of state, Scanlan oversees New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary that will take place at the beginning of 2024. However, Scanlan has caught wind of scholars’ recent arguments that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Disqualification Clause prohibits Trump from being on the presidential ballot,” Breitbart News reported.
According to ABC7:
That disqualification argument boils down to Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which says that a public official is not eligible to assume public office if they “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” the United States, or had “given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof,” unless they are granted amnesty by a two-thirds vote of Congress.
Trump hasn’t even been charged with “insurrection,” much less convicted of it. But the effort to disqualify him from the ballot under the 14th Amendment was launched by left-wing organizations, so the GOP effort to use that argument to keep him off the New Hampshire ballot likely won’t sit well with Republican voters, especially since Trump has pulled out to such a large lead in most polls — a lead that has only grown after his indictments.
New Hampshire attorney Bryant “Corky” Messner, whom Trump previously endorsed in New Hampshire’s 2020 U.S. Senate race, appears to be the one who put the issue on Scanlan’s radar.
“I really don’t view myself as turning on Trump, as odd as that sounds,” Messner told ABC News. “I love this country. I’ve served this country. I’ve taken an oath to this country. My sons are serving right now and I believe someone’s got to step up to defend the Constitution.”
“Someone needs to take some action legally so this thing can get in front of the Supreme Court sooner rather than later to interpret this section,” he added.
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