Posted on 04/21/2020 6:31:34 PM PDT by ransomnote
US Attorney General Bill Barr on Tuesday said he may go after Governors who insist on maintaining authoritarian Coronavirus lockdown orders.
The DOJ could take legal action against Governors drunk on power and infringing on Constitutional rights, Bill Barr said according to Bloomberg News.
Barr said on “The Hugh Hewitt Show” that state’s stay-at-home orders are justified up to a point, but the DOJ could target state and local officials by joining lawsuits filed by citizens over the authoritarian restrictions.
“We have to give businesses more freedom to operate in a way that’s reasonably safe,” Barr said, according to Bloomberg. “To the extent that governors don’t and impinge on either civil rights or on the national commerce — our common market that we have here — then we’ll have to address that.”
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Uh no. An emergency gives the president and the governors extra-constitutional powers to save lives, resolve the emergency and defend us.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Wake me when he stops talking and does something. About anything.
He’s determined to win. Doesn’t care what the adversaries do or say.
NAIL BULK HOGAN NOW!!!!
/Lockdown Larry needs his ass kicked
Cue bagpipes.
Not likely. But rather, he succeeded in outing them in an election year, displaying their true colors to the world and their own constituents.
that’s probably because he didn’t realize (and neither did I or most of their state’s citizens) that they were all little Hitlers in waiting
He knows RATs inside out and upside down....after all....he once was one.
That’s exactly what I said. The DOJ got involved in lawsuits that had already been filed. It didn’t go out and file the lawsuits itself.
I doubt it. Barr is just virtue signalling to the President Trump base but will end up effectively doing nothing.
JoMa
Riiiight. Barr is a rough, tough cream puff. He’ll do nothing.
He, Lindsay Graham, etc., strutting around posturing like the Cowardly Lion: “Put ‘em up! Put ‘em up!”
Possibly a subtle signal from Trump to protesters that he’ll have our backs.
Barr actually did go after that Mississippi mayor who was fining churchgoers.
Pretty thin soup under the circumstances though.
“Barr actually did go after that Mississippi mayor who was fining churchgoers.”
Really? I didn’t know that. I was wondering if anything would happen to heavy-handed, Constitution-defying officials. Good to know!
He jawboned them into dropping the fines. A court case would have taken much longer. Thus far the only Federal court action I have seen have been injunctions against states that declared abortion clinics nonessential businesses.
Oh and the judge who slapped down the Mayou of Louisville on Easter.
Are those drones surveilling Hawaiians the drones the ChiComs donated?
Taken longer? Isn’t that what temporary restraining orders are for? Bart should be able to get TROs immediately for the worst of these policies.
Get the armchair reupholstered so it is befitting of the quarterbacking...
bttt
Yes they have powers not normally granted. No, they don’t have unlimited powers. Do you seriously believe, for instance that the governor of a state can send the state police to your house and summarily execute you and your family simply because he believes that is necessary to deal with an emergency? Do you really believe that he can order the national guard to burn down your house if he deems that necessary?
If you do, then what’s the difference between America and Nazi Germany? Why even bother with a Constitution? After all, it’s possible to declare ANY situation an emergency. Who gets to decide what constitutes an emergency anyway? Is this pandemic really even an emergency in the first place? That is questionable IMO. Even the models used to start all this are now predicting about 60-70 thousand deaths, about the same as a bad seasonal flu total. Is that actually an emergency?
Does the governor really get to decide that an emergency exists, then exercise absolute power once he does so? I find it scary that ANYONE seriously thinks that is the case, let alone someone posting on a forum that promotes Constitutional government.
never said they have unlimited powers. Their legislature or a court have check and balances. Never said the national guard would burn down your house. Can you concoct a scenario where that would be necessary?
you are engaging in hyperbole. to avoid just saying, yes, sometimes rights are restricted. I am making a simple point and there is a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth, for some reason, to avoid agreeing to the obvious.
re your last paragraph. Yes on some cases the gov decides like the watts riots, forest fires earthquakes. In order to get FEMA funds and other federal aid the president has to declare. It’s all spelled out in the info I posted earlier.
What is puzzling is people don’t remember how often emergencies are declared.
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