I don’t know if he has the Constitutional authority but he can certainly get on the bully pulpit shame them & encourage freedom of religion\civil rights lawsuits.
He’s exercising his constitutional authority and duty to defend our first amendment rights.
The bully pulpit is better.
Actually, I want to see more acts of tyranny by RAT governors and big-city mayors.
Short-term pain, long-term liberation. Sooner or later, even a portion of the low-info voters will get the message.
Of course, the RAT base is built upon narcissistic elites, and their willing dupes. Those we can never reach.
The administration can take the governors to court.
If that happens, the governors will ultimately lose.
Trump gave them the opportunity to wise up.
The governors refused.
Now they comply, or they will be forced to do it by the courts.
Wrong question.
Right question is, does any governor/mayor have the constitutional authority to deny the freedom of religion, close churches, arrest peope, jail them and fine them just for going to church, exactly like Lenin and Stalin did? Nope.
What de Blasio, Cuomo, Whitmer, Murphy, Wolf, Garcetti, et al are doing is not only unconstitutional, they should be hauled off in chains for that.
The Justice Department has already started bringing lawsuits against some of these tyrants. There will be more.
“I don’t know if he has the Constitutional authority but he can certainly get on the bully pulpit shame them & encourage freedom of religion\civil rights lawsuits.”
DoJ can directly intervene with their own lawsuits in support of the 1st Amendment and already have in several cases ...
Beyond the bully pulpit he can utilize the DOJ and start action on behalf of the millions of us denied our first amendment rights
There must be a way to lean on the governors financially.But maybe the blue states can be put on probation for denying the free exercise of religion the way the South was put on probation over racial segregation.
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“I don’t know if he has the Constitutional authority but he can certainly get on the bully pulpit shame them & encourage freedom of religion\civil rights lawsuits.”
I would say the President has the authority to defend the Constitution.
Who has the authority to enforce the Constitution and Bill of Rights as in what we know as the First Amendment. What if a State decides to never allow churches to meet again; who has the authority to stop it. George Wallace might be able to answer that question if he were still around. LBJ sent National Guard troops into Alabama to enforce Civil Rights.
He is effectively threatening lawsuits, grants, and even military action against them.
1st and 14th amendments give him authority that is clear to anyone who didn’t go to one of the subpar Ivy universities.
If a state violates your first amendment rights, Trump can indeed act against them.
The emergency declarations are done under a framework of laws that allow for extraordinary executive powers at the state level, but also at the fed level. If a state gainsays an essential classification from above, the fed has the right to intervene - even if only by negating the fed acceptance of the state emergency declaration (and thereby removing money).
I have not read the law, but this is how it appears to be working, otherwise the feds would not have their own essentials list. If anyone actually understands the legal construction, please correct me if I am wrong.