Freedom Wins Over Pandemic Panic in Two States but Those Wins Show Just How Fragile Our Freedoms Are.

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Yesterday was a good day for freedom but not a great one.

On the good news side, courts in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin both ruled against the efforts by Democrat governments to rule by executive fiat in the name of a “public health emergency.”

Via FoxNews:

Yesterday, a federal judge in Pittsburgh ruled that the rather Byzantine and fascistic rules put in place by Democrat governor Tom Wolfe were unconstitutional.
A federal judge on Monday ruled that some of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s restrictions implemented amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic were unconstitutional — marking a win for businesses struggling to stay afloat amid the forced shutdown.
U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV, who was appointed by President Trump, sided with plaintiffs that included hair salons, drive-in movie theaters, a farmer’s market vendor, a horse trainer and several Republican officeholders in their lawsuit against Wolf, a Democrat, and his health secretary.
The ruling found that Wolf’s restrictions that required people to stay at home, placed size limits on gatherings and ordered “non-life-sustaining” businesses to shut down were unconstitutional.
The Wolf administration’s pandemic policies have been overreaching, arbitrary and violated citizens’ constitutional rights, Stickman wrote in his ruling.
The governor’s efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus “were undertaken with the good intention of addressing a public health emergency,” Stickman wrote. “But even in an emergency, the authority of government is not unfettered.”

While I think most people don’t have a problem with the government acting to reduce the spread of a disease, we have completely jumped the shark. Since March, governments have been limiting the behavior of perfectly healthy people on the off-chance that they might catch Wuhan virus. And the restrictions have fallen most heavily on activities disfavored by Democrats: church attendance and protests against silly restrictions in the name of public health. What has not been affected is the ability to riot and demonstrate under the flag of the Democrat-allied BLM movement.

Thank you, President Trump, for filling the federal bench with men and women who understand the role of government in a free society.

 

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