Group of businesses file suit against Whitmer, challenge executive authority

Crain's Detroit ^ | 4/28/20 | Dustin Walsh

[Libloather]

**SNIP**

The lawsuit challenges Whitmer's executive powers and seeks an immediate injunction.

"For the first time in our state's history - indeed, in our nation's history - the state government is mass quarantining healthy people instead of the sick," the lawsuit reads. "As a free people, we have the unalienable right to pursue happiness, which includes the freedom to make our own choices about our safety and welfare without unconstitutional interference. In the face of the coronavirus, it means the freedom to choose whether to stay at home, or to keep calm and carry on with the things that make life worth living."

The plaintiffs lawyers allege the state has no significant evidence the virus is as deadly as reported, citing recent antibody tests that reveal the coronavirus was present in the U.S. far earlier than expected and therefore more people have been infected with no symptoms.

"The number of deaths caused by COVID-19, while unquestionably tragic, is not 'unprecedented,' as routinely claimed," the lawsuit says. "What is unprecedented is Governor Whitmer's response to it."

[Libloather]

Way to go!

[Texas Eagle]

"For the first time in our state's history - indeed, in our nation's history - the state government is mass quarantining healthy people instead of the sick,"

Finally! The veil is lifting.

[frank ballenger]

I live in Michigan.

I want them to add this to Whitmer:
“Plus you are a lying dog faced pony soldier.”

So there.

[frank ballenger]

For the part about what makes life worth living, remember that governors such as Whitmer are the absolute sole determiners of your “right” to that. Forget Jefferson’s pursuit of happiness stuff, unless Whitmer deems that essential.

Funny after all these decades of Dems denouncing the concept, state rights now rule the day. Hypocrites.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

And here comes the Boom. Besides slamming into 10th Amendment issues with commerce, there is also the matter of the Contracts Clause. No state may legally impair the obligation of contracts. Governor Stepford Wife stepped into a whole pile of dookey with her reckless orders.

 

 

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Our sewing machine needs servicing so we called our normal place. Closed.

How is alcohol essential but small appliance repair is not?

[Texas Eagle]

That may be the serendipity in all this. The resurrection of Federalism. Ironic as that word may seem, this country was designed for states to serve as laboratories (for lack of a better word)of ideas.

Somehow the word has come to be connote an all-powerful, centralized government. That was not the goal of The Founding Fathers.

The States created the "federal" government, not the other way around.

The original role of the "federal" government was akin to something like umpires in a baseball game or referees in a boxing match. To make sure states played nice as far as that was possible.

demonicRATS are trying to use this crisis as a way to give Washington, D.C. MORE power. President Dr. Trump is using it as an opportunity for the States to re-exert their power. Good, bad or indifferent.

Yes, he "disagrees" with Georgia's Governor but he didn't threaten to use his muscle to override his decision the way Jimma Carter used "federal" highway funds to impose a 55 mph speed limit on the nation's freeways back in the 70s.

Yes, I'm THAT old.

[genghis]

I would be a lot happier if they were not lawyers but marksmen. When does the shooting war start

[Grampa Dave]

The lawsuit challenges Whitmer's executive powers and seeks an immediate injunction.

"For the first time in our state's history - indeed, in our nation's history - the state government is mass quarantining healthy people instead of the sick," the lawsuit reads. "As a free people, we have the unalienable right to pursue happiness, which includes the freedom to make our own choices about our safety and welfare without unconstitutional interference. In the face of the coronavirus, it means the freedom to choose whether to stay at home, or to keep calm and carry on with the things that make life worth living."

The plaintiffs lawyers allege the state has no significant evidence the virus is as deadly as reported, citing recent antibody tests that reveal the corona virus was present in the U.S. far earlier than expected and therefore more people have been infected with no symptoms. "The number of deaths caused by COVID-19, while unquestionably tragic, is not 'unprecedented,' as routinely claimed," the lawsuit says. "What is unprecedented is Governor Whitmer's response to it."

jazminerose: "Because I do this sort of thing, I looked up some definitions, using a disease prevention context.

You cannot *quarantine* healthy people.

You cannot *lockdown* healthy people.

The only word I found that fit our present situation is *internment*.

Thanks to HotHunt for the above great visual!

If people want to stay home, let them! NO ONE wants to force them to go out!

Easy - if you as a small business owner don’t feel safe - don’t open.*

Easy - If you as an individual don’t feel safe with things opening up - don’t go out.*

*PeteB570

[Fungi]

There will soon be the same type of lawsuit in other rat controlled states. Governors do not have this unconstitutional authority over businesses and people.

[Liz]

Everyone in Lansing admires Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s skills and just about everyone likes her

In fact, Whitmer is universally liked ..... cackle.

A Chinese group networking with US Governors voted Gov Whitmer
“The Most Friendly----Most Likely to Deliver (cough) Noodle Bowl to Chinese Man’s Hotel Room .”

[Sgt_Schultze]

The right to travel was upheld by the Supremes in 1958 in Kent v Dulles saying it is a liberty right.

[frank ballenger]

Remembering Jimmy the Peanut Farmer Carter doesn’t make you old. My watching the GOP convention to see Eisenhower nominated for 1952 does. I was young then, however.

This debate was covered in the Federalist Papers and the various Debate on the Constitution Library of America books, but now in last year’s American Secession by F.H. Buckley. Breakup of the states now would include debate over who pays the national debt and the military budget and who has to defend whom.

Main theme of the new book: Americans really hate each other and do not want to live around people of the other beliefs.
They refuse to watch TV comments of the other side or go to gatherings where they congregate. Will either leave with UHauls to new states to get away from them, or will stay and fight a bloody physical civil war soon. Part of the book is simply about how the old Civil War was justified, similar to today, about states’ rights. CA,OR and WA plus NY & MA versus middle America.

Try bringing up “Trump” at any family or work gathering and see if he’s wrong.

[Liz]

Frau Whitmer extended her stay-at-home order through May 15th but loosened some of her more draconian restrictions....
bans on purchasing harmless items like garden seeds and paint and allowed bicycle repair shops and plant nurseries, to reopen.

"I give zee orders. You vill obey, or Fritzl here putz you on zee midnight train to reedzucation camp."

[lapsus calami]

 

 

That particular photo always gives me a Whitmer-addressing-the-Reichstag vibe.

 

 

[EC Washington]

We have an office in Grand Rapids and a lot of co-workers in the Holland area. They hate her guts but are unwilling to speak out against Governor Witless. I got into a heavy duty argument with a co-worker who lives in Muskegon. He will not leave his house.

[SanchoP]

There will soon be the same type of lawsuit in other rat controlled states. Governors do not have this unconstitutional authority over businesses and people.

This is a Constitutional issue. Politics has no place in it.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

[metmom]

Frau Whitmer extended her stay-at-home order through May 15th but loosened some of her more draconian restrictions.... bans on purchasing harmless items like garden seeds and paint and allowed bicycle repair shops and plant nurseries, to reopen.

How condescending of her.

[Texas Eagle]

Whoa! I wondered what happened to him. Errrrrr...her.