Coronavirus Outbreak Raising More Constitutional Questions (Constitution news round-up)

• Justice Department wants indefinite detention, other powers
  https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/doj-suspend-constitutional-rights-coronavirus-970935/
  

• California’s Stay-at-Home Order
  https://freebeacon.com/courts/coronavirus-tests-limits-of-the-constitution-federal-power/
  
  
• “Lawsuit Challenging N.H. Order Banning Gatherings of 50 or More People”
  https://reason.com/2020/03/20/lawsuit-challenging-n-h-order-banning-gatherings-of-50-or-more-people/

• Louisiana: “Pastor again defies state order not to hold large gatherings. He says 1,000 people came to his church Sunday”
  https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/us/louisiana-pastor-spell-coronavirus/index.html
  
  
• “Pennsylvania Supreme Court Denies Appeal of Gun Store Closures, All Shops Ordered Closed on Monday”
  https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/pennsylvania-supreme-court-denies-appeal-of-gun-store-closures-all-shops-ordered-closed-on-monday/
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  “Pennsylvania Governor Reverses Course, Exempts Some Firearms Transactions from General Lockdown”
  https://reason.com/2020/03/24/pennsylvania-governor-reverses-course-exempts-some-firearms-transactions-from-general-lockdown/

 

• “New Jersey Attorney General: Employers May Have to Restrict Employees' Saying ‘Chinese Virus’”
  https://reason.com/2020/03/20/new-jersey-attorney-general-employers-may-have-to-restrict-employees-saying-chinese-virus/

 

• “Does the Takings Clause Require Compensation for Coronavirus Shutdowns? - Under current Supreme Court precedent, the answer is almost always going to be ‘no.’”
  https://reason.com/2020/03/20/does-the-takings-clause-require-compensation-for-coronavirus-shutdowns/
  
  
• “People With Disabilities Say Rationing Care Policies Violate Civil Rights”
  https://www.npr.org/2020/03/23/820398531/people-with-disabilities-say-rationing-care-policies-violate-civil-rights

 

• “Can Trump Use Coronavirus to Delay 2020 Election?”
  https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/03/18/can-trump-use-coronavirus-to-delay-2020-election/

 

• Influential law professor: “Why I'm Not (Yet?) Much Worried About the Civil Liberties Restrictions Flowing from the Coronavirus Response”
  • Precisely because they are so broad and so onerous, it seems very unlikely that people (in government or out) will want to see their massive economic and personal costs extended any longer than necessary.
    https://reason.com/2020/03/18/why-im-not-yet-much-worried-about-the-civil-liberties-restrictions-flowing-from-the-coronavirus-response/

 
Kudos! - “VIDEO: Ohio Kids Recite Pledge of Allegiance at Home While Schools are Closed”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/video-ohio-kids-recite-pledge-of-allegiance-at-home-while-schools-are-closed/