Molly McCann
Apparently they can.
If no one stops them, they can...
No one can reasonably claim that, after 5 months, there is still an “emergency” requiring the executive to wield dictatorial powers. If there needs to be laws regarding masks or lockdowns, then there has been plenty of time for the state legislatures to convene and pass them.
Justice John Devine wrote a concurrence in the Texas Supreme Court’s recent denial of a challenge to the lockdown order. He agreed, correctly, that there was no jurisdiction for a direct mandamus petition to the Texas Supreme Court in that case. But he also suggested that Governor Abbot’s orders and the Disaster Act that purportedly delegates sweeping powers to him violate the Texas Constitution: specifically the nondelegation doctrine and the Texas Constitution’s provision that only the legislature may suspend laws.
Hopefully someone gets this issue properly before the Texas Supreme Court sooner rather than later.
NM governor extends her order every 2 weeks with amended orders and more restrictions.
Their clocks are all broken and they’re never correct, even twice a day, like most broken clocks are said to be.
PA —joint resolution ending the SOE passed and the guys in black dresses said no
There are a lot of thing governors legally can’t do — yet they do — and they get away with it.
I would not bet large sums on that proposition.
Where is the legal challenge to stop it?
So they will find something else. I hear racism is also a public health emergency.
Nor to split an infinitive. [Title]
Really? Somebody tell Justice Roberts.