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English: Are the COVID-19 Lockdowns Constitutional?
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer says she's fighting a war. And she's using emergency powers in that fight. But governors are quickly finding that even emergency powers might have their limits. "Tyranny has a new name and it's called a pandemic," says Robert Muise, a constitutional lawyer with the conservative American Freedom Law Center, and a co-plaintiff in a recent lawsuit the center has filed against Governor Whitmer. Muise alleges that Whitmer has violated the First Amendment by banning church services, the Second Amendment by closing gun stores, and the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause by seeming to arbitrarily allow some places to stay open while banning others. One of his clients is a landscaper whom he says was perfectly capable of running his business while maintaining social distancing. Josh Blackman, an associate professor of law at the South Texas College of Law Houston, says that while the emergency orders may have been legal early on, that they can become less constitutional as new information about the threat level and the effectiveness of the policy becomes clear. "If the elected branches say there's some crisis that's going on, the courts are hesitant to second guess that," says Blackman. "But I think that deference only lasts for so long… Measures that might have seemed necessary and proper months ago, now seem, perhaps, overkill. And I think we're starting to see courts recognize that." Meanwhile, some businesses continue to open despite lockdown orders, local sheriffs increasingly refuse to enforce closures, DAs refuse to prosecute, and mobility data shows Americans increasingly moving through the world again as they make their own, individual risk assessments. "Civil disobedience has been one way that we've actually made a lot of policy changes here in the United States," says Muise. Produced by Zach Weissmueller. |
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