And why the hell would Congress be able to overrule states on something like this? What torturous reading of the Commerce Clause gives Congress the power to forbid lockdowns?
"U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, in a similar case out of California related to pandemic restrictions on religious gatherings, wrote in May that elected officials should be allowed latitude when acting in areas “fraught with medical and scientific uncertainties” and should not be subject to second-guessing by an “unelected federal judiciary.”
Further, if there are medical and scientific uncertainties... Erring on the side of constitutional rights seems a LOT less potentially exploitable to me. If you think that something is so critical that you need to permanently remove rights to combat it... You should be able to back that up with incontrovertible evidence.
If this is true it may change my congress and senate votes from blue to red.
I won't vote in a presidential candidate that supports lockdowns "if the science supports it" and will make me wear a mask.
Can his party truly make my state do these things?
If so that's terrifying to me and there's no way I'm giving blue, the people I voted for all my life until this year, this type of power.
Enjoy your Sunday
Lockdown protects the public health and has long standing precedent. https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/197/11
Just come out and say you're a selfish person who doesn't care if they harm people instead of hiding behind all of the pretense that it's restricting you too much.
Effective determination and points of control can be thorny.
Edit to respond to downvotes: Nor was it constitutional to institute sweeping metadata collection as a new normal in response to an emergency situation. Nor is it constitutional to make encryption illegal as the new normal because of an emergency. Etc.