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Rule by Decree: The Emergency State’s Plot to Override the Constitution
Rutherford Institute ^ | 6/6/23 | John & Nisha Whitehead

Posted on 06/08/2023 5:22:36 AM PDT by CFW

“Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.”—Justice Neil Gorsuch

We have become a nation in a permanent state of emergency.

Power-hungry and lawless, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expand its powers and justify all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name of national security.

COVID-19, for example, served as the driving force behind what Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch characterized as “the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country.”

In a statement attached to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Arizona v. Mayorkas, a case that challenged whether the government could continue to use it pandemic powers even after declaring the public health emergency over, Gorsuch provided a catalog of the many ways in which the government used COVID-19 to massively overreach its authority and suppress civil liberties:

"“Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale. Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes. They shuttered businesses and schools, public and private. They closed churches even as they allowed casinos and other favored businesses to carry on. They threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions too. They surveilled church parking lots, recorded license plates, and issued notices warning that attendance at even outdoor services satisfying all state social-distancing and hygiene requirements could amount to criminal conduct. They divided cities and neighborhoods into color-coded zones, forced individuals to fight for their freedoms in court on emergency timetables, and then changed their color-coded schemes when defeat in court seemed imminent......"

(Excerpt) Read more at rutherford.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: civilliberties; civilrights; covid; crisis; decrees; emergencies; freedom; lockdowns; tyranny
The statement by Gorsuch in the Court's ruling in Arizona v. Mayorkas, was spot on. However, the Courts have a tendency to only give lip-service to the principles of freedom as they manage to find reasons for "exceptions" to those principles.
1 posted on 06/08/2023 5:22:36 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW; null and void; ransomnote

Ping


2 posted on 06/08/2023 5:41:26 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: CFW
We may even cheer on those who ask us to disregard our normal lawmaking processes and forfeit our personal freedoms.

There has been no shortage of such feckless imbeciles, even here on FR, over the past several years, particularly with respect to the "COVID" fraud.

3 posted on 06/08/2023 5:56:31 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: CFW

In Oregon, it seems EVERY legislative bill is declared an “emergency”


4 posted on 06/08/2023 6:29:13 AM PDT by goodnesswins ( We pretend to vote and they pretend to count the votes.)
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To: CFW

And unfortunately, no police who enforced these edicts were executed.


5 posted on 06/08/2023 6:41:42 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: CFW

Spot on, both you and Gorsuch


6 posted on 06/08/2023 7:40:02 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
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To: CFW
https://ballotpedia.org/Changes_to_state_emergency_power_laws_in_response_to_the_coronavirus_(COVID-19)_pandemic,_2020-2022
7 posted on 06/08/2023 8:40:47 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: CFW

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8 posted on 06/08/2023 10:37:40 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: CFW; Sicon; goodnesswins; BigFreakinToad
In times of crisis republics exercise despotic powers, meaning those not authorized by their constitutions. Laws passed in and justified by pressing times too often remain after the return of peace.

During war, some Natural Law and Constitutional limitations go by the wayside as citizens find themselves, for instance, in involuntary servitude as military draftees. Similarly, property is at risk when government commandeers industries.

Although it must be this way when wars of survival jeopardize the unalienable rights and lives of one and all, the solution isn’t to sully the Constitution. Instead, the proper approach is to temporarily and Constitutionally step outside the civil boundaries of the Constitution.

Republics and Dictators.

9 posted on 06/08/2023 12:15:03 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

that first paragraph is what happened during COVID, dead on target.


10 posted on 06/08/2023 1:42:24 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
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To: BigFreakinToad

Written in 2019.


11 posted on 06/08/2023 1:51:55 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

I had to stop watching our local news it got so bad. All these unelected people flexing muscles and dictating what we could and couldn’t do. Most sheeple just shrugged and complied. F that noise.


12 posted on 06/08/2023 1:59:30 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
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