The other remarkable thing is the article is in a leftist rag yet it's actually written in a fair manner and does not attack the lawmakers for being conservatives or Republicans.
These judges have been mostly hiding; now they are going full force Soviet Style.
How many “emergencies” last over 1 year?
The laws had time to pass the legislatures in this country.
These are edicts, not laws.
After all, he was "the inaugural Chair of the Diversity Section of the Oregon State Bar for 2002 and 2003" and the Executive Director of the National Association of Minority Contractors’ Oregon chapter.
Fine upstanding man with a great sympathy for the Deplorable Crackers of Oregon and their interest in being free of government abuse of power.
Ever?
Is there an appeal process to higher courts in Oregon?
Conservatives must be clear in understanding our principles of limited government, separation of powers, enumerated powers and legislative actions split between a “democratic body”, like the U.S. House and a body representing the regional governmental units within the state/nation.
One of the things all of that is collectively inspired to help do is to minimize or defeat the “tyranny of the majority”. The founders saw that the varied interests had to have countering powers to each other, forcing more actions to not be possible without those actions being agreed to by a broad consensus that spanned the different interests. That all began to unravel with the advent of the “progressives” as they have no problem at all with the tyranny of “the majority”.
It is from the progressives that will also get judicial activism that also seeks to undermine our founding principles by merely rubber stamping progressives tyranny of the majority, and failing that majority the tyranny of the progressives point of view.
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
Americans don’t have the stomach anymore.
We may have to wear masks for the rest of our lives; no restaurant dining, etc...sad, sad, sad...
Lemme guess......They had no standing.
Beat thing the people of Oregon and Washington could do is redraw the borders and have them go by longitude. Everything east of the Cascades can be one state. Let the leftists have the coast.
With a judicial system like this you have only one other option.
Corrupt judges, and corrupt courts. That is all that is left in America. The constitution guarantees that the federal government will ensure that the states have a representative form of government. That means that the state legislature must make the laws, and the state must follow them. By giving a governor, and other state authorities a from of dictator powers then the constitution has been violated. Of course all you see these days is violations of the constitution. The USSC has been the worst offenders as of late. There is no longer any reason to trust the justice system. It is almost entirely corrupt.
State constitutions need to be amended to put time limits on lockdowns and on the mandatory wearing of masks.
State constitutions also need to be amended to make state health and environmental protection officials elected by popular vote.
Constitutionally time-limited lockdowns and limited mask requirements need to automatically trigger special recall elections for governors, mayors and disaster officials who order lockdowns and mask wearing, also state lawmakers.
Finally, constitutions need to require people planning to run for state and local offices to escrow a refundable "recall deposit" before becoming a candidate, the deposit fully paying in advance for their possible recall elections if they are elected, amounts determined by law.
Here are some health concerns about quarantine-related wearing of masks.
Alarming COVID-19 study finds virus survives on fabric for 3 days (2.24.21)
85 Percent of COVID-19 Patients Contracted Virus Despite ‘Always’ or ‘Often’ Wearing a Mask (10.12.20)
Masks ‘don’t work,’ are damaging health and are being used to control population: Doctors panel (2.19.21)
The Truth Revealed About the Deadly 1918 Spanish Flu: It Was Actually Bacterial Pneumonia (5.28.19)
Medical Doctor Warns that “Bacterial Pneumonias Are on the Rise” from Mask Wearing (10.6.20)
Bacterial Pneumonia and Other Health Risks of Wearing Masks Alarm Doctors (10.9.20)
Doctor uses Vape Aerosols to show just how much masks don't work (2:55 min; 9.6.20)
If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list. On the lack of standing, likely the rationale is that the governor’s emergency powers are described in law, and that the legislature as a whole has the power to adjust this. The correct venue for the few legislators, in general, is the legislature not the court.
The way government is set up, in general, it is possible and even likely that three branches controlled by the same ideology will work in cahoots. The federal government is an example of runaway government. It is unaccountable to the people in fact, no matter what platitudes it advances to claim the contrary.