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| Subject: Authoritarian coronavirus rules Wed Apr 01, 2020 1:56 am | |
| The coronavirus pandemic is “an urgent public-health concern,” but it doesn’t excuse “stay-at-home orders enforceable by criminal law,” which DC, Virginia and Maryland issued Monday, following other states — and which, The Washington Examiner’s Tom Rogan writes, are “patently authoritarian.” While it’s “appropriate” for governments to “advise their citizens strongly to remain at home,” “enforce bans on large gatherings” and “use mandatory stay-at-home orders” in “the worst-hit areas such as New York,” strident “stay-at-home orders bound to criminal sanction should not stand.” Fighting the crisis “cannot come at the expense of the most basic constitutional rights,” including “the right to assemble peacefully.”
https://nypost.com/2020/03/31/authoritarian-coronavirus-rules-and-other-commentary/ |
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