Posts Tagged ‘Michigan Supreme Court’

State Edicts…In a recent column in the New York Times, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer criticized President Donald Trump for not issuing a national order making the wearing of masks mandatory – a pledge made by Vice President Joe Biden raising serious constitutional questions. Now, Whitmer is having her broad interpretation of state executive authority checked by the Michigan Supreme Court, which found that she violated the Constitution with her extension of the state of emergency. As a reminder, Andrea Widburg writes that Whitmer’s “Stay Home, Stay Safe Executive Order” went into effect at the end of March, while people were still talking about a short-term exercise in “flattening the curve.”   Whitmer quarantined everyone, locking people in their homes except for allowing them to go to major chain stores or work for (and still get paid by) the government. As time passed, Whitmer’s orders got more detailed, with carve-outs…