Governors' stay-at-home orders are 'unconstitutional,' cases won't hold up in court

[Copper]

https://www.foxnews.com/media/napolitano-unconstitutional-stay-at-home-orders

@Napolitano said "

Governors' stay-at-home orders are 'unconstitutional,' cases won't hold up in court

Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said on Tuesday that stay-at-home orders from governors across the U.S. are unconstitutional because creating laws is a power delegated solely to legislatures

“The government has to recognize that the rights that are in the Constitution still exist in bad times as well as in good and it has to treat people equally,” Napolitano told “Fox & Friends.”

“If you can get in a line of cars to buy a cheeseburger at McDonald's, you can get in a line of cars to express your opinion about the government."
Napolitano’s comments came after the organizer of a protest against New Jersey’s coronavirus stay-at-home order was arrested. Kim Pagan, of Toms River, N.J., was charged Friday following the small but noisy demonstration in front of the New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton.
New Jersey police accused Pagan of violating emergency stay-at-home orders issued by Gov. Phil Murphy to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

Pagan was issued a summons and not arrested, according to a news release from state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal.

“If you think emergency orders are more like guidelines than actual rules, think again,” Grewal said in a tweet Friday.

Pagan has to answer to the charge in municipal court. Violations of emergency orders constitute a disorderly persons offense carrying a potential sentence of up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, Gewal said.

The protesters gathered outside the Statehouse as Murphy and other state officials held a media briefing about the COVID-19 pandemic inside, News 12 New Jersey reported.

[Copper]

I don't know the law, but I would like to believe this.

If true, I wish more new outlets reported it.

[Improviso]

Maybe someone will arrest our governor who is defying his own order.

He's been spotted at his second home in Manteo, N.C.

https://newsradiowrva.radio.com/blogs/jeff-katz/virginia-gov-ralph-northam-violating-covid-19-stay-at-home?fbclid=IwAR2vk02gAAciXiVmzImXjIyZcnZMNtKaihF3_x7fCiQbWhFS1XeceHOOlBM

[Jolly]

Bill Barr weighed in today, saying that some governors may have exceeded their authority concerning certain Constitutional rights.

I don't think he threatened anything, his statement was more in the form of a nudge, methinks.

[Copper]

I suspect that many governors, like the president, may have extraordinary powers in an emergency.

Still, I don't like some of the things they have done.

[xenon]

A bit of a different perspective - during the bombing of London, you had to follow guidelines on when you could turn on your lights.

During WW2 here - there was flour and sugar rationing.

Now this isn't a war - but we're talking about is the limits of the power of compulsion from the state.

Both of those things are massive infringements on personal rights by the state. I'm not sure where the theoretical max is on the government's power of compulsion in an emergency.

Ask yourself - what are you really arguing :

• This isn't really an emergency

• The power of the state should be limited, no matter if there's an emergency

[Doctor Phibes]

It seems to me that certain conservatives have lost the 'Covid is just like the flu' argument, and now they're changing the direction of the smoke they're trying to blow up our arses to one of civil liberties.

(Sarcasm)It kind of makes you wonder about their real motivation.

[Copper]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Governors' stay-at-home orders are 'unconstitutional,' cases won't hold up in court:

It seems to me that certain conservatives have lost the 'Covid is just like the flu' argument,

The real motivation is evil, pure and simple, evil.

And the 'Covid is no worse than the flu' argument ended a few days ago when deaths from COVID exceeded deaths from this year's flu. COVID wins.

Of course the year is an arbitrary period of time and you could choose a longer period if it suits your purpose. For example, the number of flu deaths over the last 5 years is far greater than the number from COVID.

Pandemics are not limited by a single year, so if you are just comparing total deaths, there are options.

Of course when you throw in the economic impact, there is no comparison.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Copper said in Governors' stay-at-home orders are 'unconstitutional,' cases won't hold up in court:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Governors' stay-at-home orders are 'unconstitutional,' cases won't hold up in court:

It seems to me that certain conservatives have lost the 'Covid is just like the flu' argument,

And the 'Covid is no worse than the flu' argument ended a few days ago when deaths from COVID exceeded deaths from this year's flu. COVID wins.

There was an entire forum of people who knew that was going to happen, for months. They knew because the projections provided no possibility otherwise. None.

It ended a few days ago for you and only you.

[Copper]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Governors' stay-at-home orders are 'unconstitutional,' cases won't hold up in court:

@Copper said in Governors' stay-at-home orders are 'unconstitutional,' cases won't hold up in court:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Governors' stay-at-home orders are 'unconstitutional,' cases won't hold up in court:

It seems to me that certain conservatives have lost the 'Covid is just like the flu' argument,

And the 'Covid is no worse than the flu' argument ended a few days ago when deaths from COVID exceeded deaths from this year's flu. COVID wins.

There was an entire forum of people who knew that was going to happen, for months. They knew because the projections provided no possibility otherwise. None.

It ended a few days ago for you and only you.

You may recall when I first pointed out to you that the game was not yet over I told you that COVID would win.

The game isn't over until it is over. Sorry, it just isn't, no matter what an entire forum, including me, might predict.

[Aqua Letifer]

Okay, but that's a dangerous way of analyzing a situation with a three-week lag between what's reported and what's actually happening.

[Copper]

It is a simple scoreboard.

It is exactly the same scoreboard that is used for every pandemic in the history of mankind.

It is simple, it only takes a moment.

It does not preclude any other analysis.

[Doctor Phibes]

I'm sure some people waited until the end of 1941 before finally concluding that the Nazis were really bad people.

[Axtremus]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Governors' stay-at-home orders are 'unconstitutional,' cases won't hold up in court:

I'm sure some people waited until the end of 1941 before finally concluding that the Nazis were really bad people.

Heck, even as recently as 2017 you got a statement like "you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides."

[George K]

@Axtremus said in Governors' stay-at-home orders are 'unconstitutional,' cases won't hold up in court:

Heck, even as recently as 2017 you got a statement like "you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides."

You do know the context of that quotation, don't you?

[jon-nyc]

That was definitely a case of fake news. It’s beyond clear that he was talking about both sides of the confederate statue issue, he wasn’t talk about the tiki wielding skinheads.

[Improviso]

@George-K said in Governors' stay-at-home orders are 'unconstitutional,' cases won't hold up in court:

@Axtremus said in Governors' stay-at-home orders are 'unconstitutional,' cases won't hold up in court:

Heck, even as recently as 2017 you got a statement like "you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides."

You do know the context of that quotation, don't you?

I'm sure he does, but it doesn't fit his narrative. As usual.

[jon-nyc]

I doubt he does.

Really, this is one the media has only ever distorted so people genuinely believe he was saying there were nice people among the tiki wielding demonstrators.