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What a slavish libertarian idealist article.

But freedoms, once relinquished, are not easily reacquired. State and federal legislators have spent decades divesting themselves of their authority. Perhaps its time they started taking it back.

What, you think legislatures have ever functioned effectively during a crisis to deal with all the situations that an executive handles?  In the same paragraph, the author notes:

Legislative lethargy is a force multiplier in a crisis, compounding a natural disaster by adding a civic dimension to it.

Also:

He added that it is precisely in times of profound urgency that challenges to American liberties arise, but an emergency does not justify the abrogation of constitutional due process rights.

Nothing about these rights are due process rights, if I'm read the article correctly.  Does this author not know what words he's using?  

Also noted in the article: the emergency powers act that Whitmer used was *on the books.*  It was a law in good standing up until the state supreme court ruled against it with a 5-4 partisan split.  Why fault the governor for relying on a law that was in perfectly good standing until the court decided it wasn't constitutional?

Wisconsin is feeling the effects of rapid spread again.  I wonder if that's due, at least in part, to this:

As early as May, the Wisconsin Supreme Court determined that Gov. Tony Evers’s restrictions on travel, the operation of nonessential businesses, and even movement outside the home infringed upon basic American civil liberties.

"bUt MaH fReEdOmS!"  --the article, basically

[fullmetal]

What a slavish libertarian idealist article.

But freedoms, once relinquished, are not easily reacquired. State and federal legislators have spent decades divesting themselves of their authority. Perhaps its time they started taking it back.

What, you think legislatures have ever functioned effectively during a crisis to deal with all the situations that an executive handles?  In the same paragraph, the author notes:

Legislative lethargy is a force multiplier in a crisis, compounding a natural disaster by adding a civic dimension to it.

Also:

He added that it is precisely in times of profound urgency that challenges to American liberties arise, but an emergency does not justify the abrogation of constitutional due process rights.

Nothing about these rights are due process rights, if I'm read the article correctly.  Does this author not know what words he's using?  

Also noted in the article: the emergency powers act that Whitmer used was *on the books.*  It was a law in good standing up until the state supreme court ruled against it with a 5-4 partisan split.  Why fault the governor for relying on a law that was in perfectly good standing until the court decided it wasn't constitutional?

Wisconsin is feeling the effects of rapid spread again.  I wonder if that's due, at least in part, to this:

As early as May, the Wisconsin Supreme Court determined that Gov. Tony Evers’s restrictions on travel, the operation of nonessential businesses, and even movement outside the home infringed upon basic American civil liberties.

"bUt MaH fReEdOmS!"  --the article, basically