I know we're not supposed to say it out loud because the virus might be listening but it is actually very very very not-constitutional for the mayor to make having a friend over a crime
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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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Virus eats abstract ideology for breakfast
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This is why Cuomo and Murphy out east have announced a solid metric based plan to get out because they know this.
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If we lost freedom by allowing such emergency powers, then we lost them in 1905, not 2020: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobson_v._Massachusetts …pic.twitter.com/yPdDKYdc28
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You’re at where you’re at ‘cause of where you’ve been. Elect more effective leaders.
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