Posted on 09/16/2020 4:46:14 PM PDT by raptor22
Does the Wuhan virus, which arguably escaped from a Chinese virology lab, supersede the rights guaranteed to American citizens under the U.S. Constitution? U.S. Federal District Judge William Stickman IV has ruled in a case brought before him that there is no pandemic exception to the U.S. Constitution and that the Bill of Rights cannot be trampled with impunity whenever there is a health emergency leftist ideologues try to exploit to impose their desired control over every aspect of our daily lives. As Reason Magazine reports:
A federal judge on Monday has ruled that lockdown restrictions imposed by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D), including a ban on large gatherings and the closure of “non-life sustaining businesses,” are unconstitutional.
While those restrictions were “well-intentioned,” wrote U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV, “good intentions toward a laudable end are not alone enough to uphold governmental action against a constitutional challenge. Indeed, the greatest threats to our system of constitutional liberties may arise when the ends are laudable and the intent is good—especially in time of emergency.”
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Great, but this should have happened back in MARCH.
And in all 50 states
The state can still take short-term emergency measures if they are minimally (!!!!) intrusive on our liberties
and for the minimal time required to meet the emergency
Lockdowns that last for weeks and months are not short-term emergency measures, they are far far from minimally intrusive of liberty, and there is precious little proof they are even necessary or helpful for most people anyway
plus, they have to be rational in order to meet basic constitutional standards. closing churches/synagogues while leaving open large stores and allowing SorozNazi riot mobs to assemble in large numbers.............that’s not even minimally rational.
it is a shame that our courts have largely abandoned our constitution and our individual liberties. I do hope that most or all of PDJT”s judges will prove as good on the bench as their bios looked here on FR!
“Open ended” mandates are unconstitutional!
Good!
Open the Damn
Thing Up,Now!
I don’t want federal, or other, courts running health departments.
I like that this ruling gives government executives leeway to deal with emergencies however they decide- up to a reasonable point.
The “Lockdown”,
Now
6 months is
Unreasonable!
Open Texas Now!!
A reasonable
2 Weeks,to
“Flaten the Curve” sure.
Japan Did Not lockdown for
Fear of Trampling Civil
Rights!
We taught them Well.
This has been a
“Constitutional Crisis”.
Can We Prevent this
From Happening Again?
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