Primary responsibility for pandemic quarantine and isolation lies with state and county/parish health departments/public health officers. The Feds are primarily responsible for incoming traveller/border/immigration quarantines. Barr will have to find some egregious constitutional violations to make any headway in the courts.
https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/state-quarantine-and-isolation-statutes.aspx
https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantineisolation.html
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/RL33201.pdf
Like blocking Christians from Easter Service while allowing Muslims to meet?
Troll.
Very informative article, and these are not the total of presidential powers that can be used during a National Emergency:
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-president-can-do-during-crisis-2018-5
6 unbelievable things the president can do during a crisis
” Barr will have to find some egregious constitutional violations to make any headway in the courts.”
Found some! Harmeet Dhillon has filed several lawsuits against Commifornia, Newsome, et al on behalf of several people. Check her page out, give her 10 bucks.
https://twitter.com/pnjaban/status/1255003643780018176
My right to worship at church HAS BEEN VIOLATED.
Petey
They only have authority to quarantine sick people who have demonstrated a willful disregard for the health of others (think typhoid Mary). They have zero authority to place the public under house arrest. Bill Barr has authority to use the DOJ to enforce the constitution on any local govt. that disregards the civil liberties of its citizens.