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Does the Con have any authority to quarantine a single state?
Gothmog
(145,489 posts)Zoonart
(11,876 posts)he might have to declare Marshall law to do this. He would need the National Guard or the Army to enforce.
Again... not a lawyer.
elleng
(131,074 posts)by a government, especially in response to a temporary emergency such as invasion or major disaster, or in an occupied territory.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law
Zoonart
(11,876 posts)Is this not a temporary emergency?
Just guessing here.
DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)within a state, that's a state/local matter. At least that's the way I read this from cdc:
https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantineisolation.html
dalton99a
(81,568 posts)Acts to prevent the entry of communicable diseases into the United States. Quarantine and isolation may be used at U.S. ports of entry.
Is authorized to take measures to prevent the spread of communicable diseases between states.
May accept state and local assistance in enforcing federal quarantine.
May assist state and local authorities in preventing the spread of communicable diseases.
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)I haven't loaded or shot it in years.
Hope it doesn't come to that.
I have a carrying permit but the gun and I are staying home.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Michigan or New York, oh why not both, super assholian god of orange tan creme!
Get almost no votes outside of any family that survives on 11.3.2020 and suspect even those won't be a lock by then, if you aint locked up or worse?
MineralMan
(146,325 posts)However he has no means to enforce such a thing. Too many roads linking states. It would be impossible to block them all. Even the states couldn't do it if they wanted to, really.
He could issue an order, which would be ignored by anyone who wanted to ignore it. On the other hand, if you drove into some state with NY plates on your car, you might find yourself pulled over by some local cop.
I don't think he'll try it, frankly.
Shermann
(7,428 posts)Which means, given the chaos, YES
Progressive Law
(617 posts)In Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905) Justice John Marshall Harlan wrote for a 7-2 majority, [The Constitution] does not import an absolute right in each person to be, at all times and in all circumstances, wholly freed from restraint. Instead, a community has the right to protect itself against an epidemic. Its members may at times, under the pressure of great dangers, be subjected to such restraint, to be enforced by reasonable regulations, as the safety of the general public may demand.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/197/11/
malaise
(269,157 posts)Gothmog
(145,489 posts)That is what I wanted to see
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)old guy
(3,283 posts)He will do whatever he wants and who will stop him? Ultimately it comes down to the Supreme Court and I can tell you that vote now.
5 to 4 for tRump.