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Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order that closed businesses

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Re: Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order that closed businesses

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Post by vmception »

> The legislature may have buyer's remorse for the breadth of discretion it gave to (the Department of Health Services). But those are the laws it drafted

So although every state is different, Wisconsin isn't that different and its Supreme Court did not rule on the law and only on feelings.

The majority opinion was across the ideological spectrum, the dissenting opinion was across the ideological spectrum as well.

4-3 decision

One member of the court had just left the court, could have easily been 4-4 or another combination

Interesting, Wisconsin

Re: Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order that closed businesses

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Post by vmception »

Grakel wrote: post #3

What we should do is one thing. Saying the government can make us do it is something else entirely.

Doesn't look like the Wisconsin Supreme Court really ruled on that, according to its purpose in Wisconsin, if you read the article.

But it doesn't matter since overruling those kinds of courts is almost impossible, so yes if you wish for a court to overturn such an order that is what happened here!

Re: Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order that closed businesses

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Post by arkades »

Grakel wrote: post #3

What we should do is one thing. Saying the government can make us do it is something else entirely.

There's a couple centuries of common law precedent that the government can compel behavior for public health crises. The state supreme court here grossly violated legal precedent, and will have its ass overturned in a heartbeat if anyone has the time, resources, and will to escalate.

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Post by organsnyder »

Grakel wrote: post #3

What we should do is one thing. Saying the government can make us do it is something else entirely.

When our actions can harm others, the government absolutely has the right—and the obligation—to step in.

Re: Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order that closed businesses

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Post by charred_toast »

Can I get some more down votes, please? This isn't absurd enough yet.

You'd have to be a buffoon to not take safety for yourself and others seriously. That being said, it's about time people in positions of power woke-up and smelled the Constitution.

Downvote me all you want, it doesn't make you right: "An agency cannot confer on itself the power to dictate the lives of law-abiding individuals as comprehensively as the order does without reaching beyond the executive branch's authority," the justices wrote in their decision Wednesday.

Re: Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down stay-at-home order that closed businesses

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Post by aegis4244 »

The Republicans who brought the lawsuit argue that, in part, continuing the lock down isn't appropriate because deaths from covid19 are going down. They don't connect the declining deaths to being locked down. You would think they would notice.
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