Posted on 06/07/2021 5:06:24 AM PDT by cotton1706
The biggest public health disaster in a hundred years is winding down, but the fight over emergency powers given to governors during the COVID-19 pandemic is escalating throughout nearly every state government in the country.
Lawmakers in 46 states, Guam and Puerto Rico have drafted 300 proposals this year to curtail their governors' executive powers, as legislative and executive branches fight for authority over school and business closures, mask orders and more.
Almost all of the measures seek to install permanent restrictions on governors' powers that were handed to them in the first months of the virus' spread as states scrambled to address the health emergency.
Now, states may change the unilateral authority many governors were given, putting more control and checks and balances with their legislative branches.
(Excerpt) Read more at goerie.com ...
The people … are not controllable by any other laws than those to which their constitutional representa-tive body have given their consent. - John Adams
Pa began this as soon as Wolf did his first extension.....our guys were livid and went right to it.
In the May primary, we also passed an amendment to the state constitution limiting the emergency powers of the governor. The scary part to me is that the amendment vote was only 54-46 in favor. It should have been much higher than that.
The problem is that the whole debate over emergency powers was framed in overly specific terms — response to the pandemic and Wolf in particular. This really should have been about the larger problem, namely the flawed constitution of our state.
The limiting of emergency powers was brought to the forefront by COVID, but really was indicative of a fundamental flaw — the same person who gets unlimited powers during an emergency can also declare that emergency. Whether or not one agrees with a particular response to a particular emergency, surely we must realize ether danger inherent in essentially allowing a governor to seize dictatorial power based upon his own declaration that an emergency exists.
I almost hate to make this comparison since while Wolf has serious flaws, he isn’t a maniacal, genocidal megalomaniac, but those who have studied history can see a parallel. How did Hitler arise to dictatorial power in Germany? He was elected chancellor, but that was not a dictatorial position in the Weimar Republic. Hitler staged a fire in the Reichstag and used it as an excuse to seize emergency power, and the rest is history. Such is the danger inherent in having one person with the power to assume absolute power at will, even if it’s only intended to be on an emergency basis.
Let me know when a governor is impeached.
Then I’ll believe a legislature is serious.
BTW, last I knew the legislature in every state in the union except Oregon has the power to impeach its gov.
Talk is cheap.
No, the biggest lie/fraud/scam in a hundred years, and possibly of all time.
Good post...Good read.
Under no circumstances should the Bill of Rights not be in force.
The trouble is that the assumption of emergency powers by a governor is perfectly legal, and therefore is not an impeachable offense. The governors aren’t the problem; the state laws and constitutional provisions allowing governors the power to declare an emergency and then assume unlimited power in response to that declaration are the problem. Impww de arch a governor and you don’t actually solve the real problem. Other states need to do what Pennsylvania did in May and amend their constitutions to place reasonable checks and limits on a governor’s emergency power.
Waning, I suppose, it’s over: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases
and yet here in the rupublic of michiganstan, our bush league chamber of commerce worshiping repbliCAN’T controlled legislature does nothing...
hell, we citizens had to do their job for them, but creating and passing a petition to limit this hitler wanna be’s power.
According to the law, this petition becomes law automatically, bypassing legislature and governor.
The petition is approved.
So, where is it you ask???
Still sitting in our democommie secretary of states office.
bueller???? beuller???
Great point. It’s not a popular opinion these days, but it’s still true — tyrannical government is far more dangerous and has killed far more people than any pandemic. The BOR is a good weapon to avoid tyranny.
It probably was, given the level of fraud in PA.
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