I’m sorry, I didn’t realize state laws were above the Constitution. When I was in the Air Force we took an oath to defend the Constitution and it was drilled into our heads that it is the SUPREME law of the land. So the gov of Mississippie can shove his Emergency powers malarkey up his, well you can finish the sentence.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t realize state laws were above the Constitution.”
That’s OK, no need to apologize...
When you were in the airforce defending the constitution, you were defending also the portions that allow for state of emergencies to be declared at both the national and state level. There probably needs to be more restrictions to those provisions, but that’s the way things are right now.
Check out this Wikipedia article on the subject. Go to the section on the US, there it also mentions states declaration of emergency.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_emergency
By the way I hear your concern about this apparent unlimited power that a president and governors can declare for themselves. Congress has some power to restrict it but at the end of the day it falls on us, we the people, if we have the will.