[NobleFree]

IMO still relevant, although perhaps overtaken by events in certain aspects.

[exnavy]

Absolutely untrue, our constitutional rights have been trampled at every level.

[AndyJackson]

There is one piece that is absolutely missed in this. Any infringement on a constitutional right is subject to strict scrutiny. The measure must be reasonably aimed at achieving the ultimate over-riding public good, which means it must be reasonable.

For instance allowing socially distanced outdoor recreation, except for a certain set of arbitrarily chosen activities that offend the sensitivities of the Michigan governor or the global warming crowd are not resting a rational basis. Fishing in the middle of a lake is not more prone to spreading a virus than jogging in the park.

Then there is the issue of balancing public health against the right to contract out one's labor to earn a living to feed one's family. Clearly this isn't bubonic plague where we are all going to die.

[TheConservativeBanker]

WTF is the Heritage Foundation thinking. Defense of transparent tyranny is not fidelity to the Constitution. Citing Supreme Court decisions as the true meaning of the Constitution seems to neglect decisions like Dredd Scott, Roe v Wade, and Obergefell v Hodges which show that the Supreme Court often takes the side of tyrants and destroyers.

I’m glad that I had not mailed them my 2020 contribution yet.

[equaviator]

The 10th Amendment needs to be updated for life in the 21st Century and beyond.

[Lockbox]

Sorry but I disagree with the Judge. The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Equal protection law implies that no State has the right to deny anyone within jurisdiction equal protection of the law.

So explain how some businesses can open but others cannot.

Also explain that if the determining factor is a business ability to maintain 'Social Distancing' how are airlines allowed to fly?

This is one just example of States and local governments violating Constitution.

Don't forget the 1st Amendment and what States have done to Church Services!

[Uncle Miltie]

Governor Inslee (WA) is using emergency powers to reward his political friends and punish his foes.

According to inside sources.

[glennaro]

What the governors are doing -- what they have become in assuming their absolute, vast, new, unquestionable and unchecked powers -- is clearly what the Founders feared most: Consolidated power in one person.

No general, even during a war, ever had complete control over the lives of 40,000,000 people as Gavin (Pelosi) Newsom has in California.

No politician, even during a crisis, ever had complete control over the lives, families and businesses of 20,000,000 people as does Mario Cuomo in New York.

No Leftist, even during the recent upheaval to "fundamentally change the United States of America", ever had the power to suspend the rights protected by the Constitution of 10,000,000 people as does Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan.

These and other primarily Democrat/Leftist politicians (governors) have not only suspended the U.S. Constitution in their states, they have effectively cancelled the formerly "unalienable right" of Liberty, with no intention to restore that God-given right any time soon. And it is clear that this "unalienable right" wiil be restored only when the governor -- nothing more than an elected politician -- says it will be restored.

And all the while -- over the past six weeks when the forced isolation began -- federal officials including the justices on the U.S. Supreme Court and even the President of the United States, officials who have sworn their oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America", have stood mute. These "defenders of the Constitution" (their primary duty above all else) have allowed these governors -- primarily the Democrat/Left governors -- to turn our Constitution into nothing more than a collection of high-sounding words on pieces of aging parchment.

[CodeToad]

Not as single link between these “Acts” and the constitution in the article.

[sergeantdave]

This panic over a virus has certainly allowed us to see individual elected politicians overstepping our constitutional bounds.

Example #1: I ORDER YOU NOT TO GO FISHING BECAUSE YOU MIGHT CATCH A VIRUS INSTEAD OF A FISH!!!

Example #2: YOU CAN’T WORSHIP IN A CHURCH BECAUSE YOU SIT TOO CLOSE TOGETHER! HOWEVER, YOU CAN MINGLE ASSHOLE-TO-BELLY-BUTTON AT WALMART TO BUY A FISHING POLE!!!

This is a marvelous opportunity to rewrite emergency declarations on the state level so this crap never happens again. It will be up to patriots to get involved in local and state politics to rewrite the rules. Get to work.

[9YearLurker]

The most obviously unconstitutional overreach by far IMO has been the governors forbidding drive up church services. They would really be hard pressed to defend the necessity of that in contradiction to the right to freedom of religion.

[MinorityRepublican]

National emergency is over. Time to open things up. If people want to go to church, allow them. Even if they are at risk of contracting the virus.