“it was a “rule” that should have come from the legislature and not the executive branch”
The central question of our time. Do the bureaucrats have the right to make laws by edict?
Do the bureaucrats have the right to make laws by edict?
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Actually they do.
Blame our lazy politician. What they do is write a vague law and then authorize some bureaucrat to define the details of that law.
Not laws but regulations that can be enforced with fines.
In virginia, we have a law, the law grants powers to the executive when there is a state of emergency. The governor is allowed to declare a state of emergency, on a pretty broad basis (in January, he declared a “state of emergency” because of a political rally, and courts upheld his right to do so, and to curtail 1st and 2nd amendment rights based on the emergency).
I’m guessing the law has some method for the legislature to step in. It appears that our law does not have a time limit.
We the people do have the right to recall our governor, and that seems to be about the only thing we could do right now to legally stop him from doing anything he wants, with the power of our SOE law.