Presidents do have some emergency powers in an epidemic (some of which are granted by Congress), but they relate to *closing* things (still mostly borders, federal property, etc). Presidents have little or no power to *open* things closed by the states.https://twitter.com/BoSnerdley/status/1250068556710100994 …
Whatever Trump can do, he can undo. But he's talking here about undoing things other people did.
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His failure to exercise one power is not a surrender of its corollary power Hypo: trump DOES shut down economy & plans a comprehensive orderly reopening. Could states thwart the federal plan by adopting their own restriction? Supremacy clause suggests not.
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Of course this is all a bit general since a lot of it depends upon the source of the authority claimed. I happen to think with the right regulatory changes, something like that could be argued under one or more current statutes.
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