Posted on 07/10/2023 7:07:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Gov. Tim Walz had the legal authority to mandate face masks when he declared a public health emergency in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled Monday.
Walz declared a peacetime emergency in March 2020 and mandated masking in most indoor public spaces in July 2020.
The conservative Upper Midwest Law Center sued, challenging the mask requirement as unconstitutional. Walz lifted the mandate in May 2021, at which point the Court of Appeals declared the case moot. […]
The appeals court rejected as “unreasonable” the plaintiffs’ assertions that the coronavirus “most likely” originated from a laboratory leak, so that the resulting pandemic did not occur “naturally” and therefore was not an “act of nature” under the state law. …
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
It does not matter that the masks didn’t work. The scientific evidence was that they don’t work and that they actually made people sick among other issues.
Certainly did and does not matter to the power-hungry.
They were virtual signaling compliance checkers—nothing more, nothing less—to give a quick visual check of what percentage of the sheeple would line up for the mNRA experimental jab.
Governor is elected head of a state. He/she can execute orders legally and per state constitution. If the EO is stupid, there will be next election coming up.
The court decision was legally and constitutionally correct.
Bull…my God given rights supersedes this idiot governor!
In your mind, yes.
In a court of law, nope.
We still are a nation of laws.
Such BS! Show me where we are a nation of lawas for the past 25 plus years! Total lie!
“We still are a nation of laws.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
HOHOHOHOHOHO!
Stop it. You’re killing me.
L
This **** will only end when we, as a nation, stop complying.
Franklin was right.
We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
That seems like a weird argument for the plaintiffs to make. Maybe next time make a case that there has never been evidence that masks do a damn thing other than inconvenience and annoy the populace and allow those in positions of authority to extend their authoritarian reach.
The laws of the USA center around the recognition and defense of God-given rights. People like Walz and the judges involved here are on the assault of such laws, and intend to substitute the rule of men.
That is how you wish things were..Gods law and all.
In reality, congress makes federal laws with president’s signature. State legislature make state laws based on state constitutions. And there is 3rd branch of government who gets to decide if any law is constitutional or not.
The system is still in place. SOCTUS recently dismissed federal mandate on abortions. The system worked.
I think you need to re-read my post.
It was Woodrow Wilson who believed in “omnipotence of legislation” rather than Constitutional law.
I do not need to know what Woodrow Wilson believed. I can observe the current system at work with my own eyes. It is working like it is designed to work.
The problem is not with elected officials and courts. Those are elected in each election and can be removed by voters.
The problem is with UN-Elected bureaucrats who use their personal bias in doing their jobs.
You do need to know what Woodrow Wilson believed, because that is exactly what the left is applying. Those who know themselves but not their enemy will suffer defeats for every victory.
And I see you are throwing in election fraud denial, while acknowledging the problem of unelected bureaucracy which is actually not in the Constitution.
Stop lying. I said nothing about elections fraud.
That’s what I said; that you said nothing about it. How could I lie about that?
Are you equating people who got what should have been an elected office by fraud with appointed bureaucrats? It’s not an unfair comparison, I’ll acknowledge.
A follow-up...
https://nypost.com/2023/07/24/fancy-quartz-countertops-are-killing-people-new-study/
Note that the guy in the article wore a “mask”.
So a facemask that won’t prevent someone from developing silicosis will keep out the coof.
Riiiiight.
And as a by the by, why did the great liberal state of CA, the same state that insisted on muzzles and lockdowns, allow the people the guy worked for to ignore OSHA and state regs?
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