You're being daft if you think you can invoke emergency that functionally suspend rights **for months or years** without having to eat the implications later, either in the form of a flood of lawsuits or a shiny new semi-autocracy
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The problem isn't strong political tools for emergency response, the problem is the fundamental lack of respect for what they are. It's a big deal to suspend the right to assemble. Announcing at 40 days locked down that you still have no plan except more lockdown is unforgivable.
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What we're supposed to be buying ourselves with an emergency toolkit that approaches the power of all-out martial law is the ability to deliver a rapid + flexible **short-term** response at whatever scale/scope makes the most sense. Not indefinite unannounced Martial Law Lite.
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Supreme Court disagrees
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Good thing they are being shifted.
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May be unwise, but quarantine is not unconstitutional. That sort of thing was enforced at gunpoint in the 1790s.
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In the 1790s, they also made it illegal to call the President fat.
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Not a crime; do it.
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