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Yavin4

(35,354 posts)
3. SCOTUS will reject any law requiring people to quarantine.
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 01:24 PM
Sep 2020

Public health is devalued in this culture which is why we lead the world in deaths.

hlthe2b

(101,698 posts)
5. Not so
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 01:25 PM
Sep 2020

Such laws have been regularly upheld with tuberculosis mandatory quarantines, as one example

I don't know if you are legally trained and/or have access to case law, but there is a LOT of precedence.

brush

(53,467 posts)
2. By the time a SCOTUS challenge to such a law winds its way to the court...
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 01:24 PM
Sep 2020

which would take months, it will already have done its job.

Go for it, repugs.

hlthe2b

(101,698 posts)
4. Courts the past two decades have upheld school immunization laws--even those requiring vaccinations
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 01:25 PM
Sep 2020

among the Amish or other "religious" objectors during outbreaks. Public health law varies, but there is one hell of a lot of precedence for it fully "trumping" (no pun intended) so-called religious grounds. So, that is not something I'd take at "faith" (pun INTENDED).

Igel

(35,191 posts)
6. More likely because he wouldn't have the authority.
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 01:29 PM
Sep 2020

That's one of these things where either a president is bound to implement a law affecting everybody--with a need to implement some sort of national enforcement strategy--or is prohibited by the nature of the government system under our Constitution, where this is a right reserved for the states.

Biden made the kind of 'day-one national mandate' claim, was dinged for it, and then shortly after that clarified what he *really* meant was talking to governors and getting them to implement mask mandates. What "getting them" entails was a question--perhaps withholding unrelated funding until they comply, perhaps just dissing and trying to humiliate non-compliant governors.

Maybe these days he'd use the CDC--declare it a public health emergency and then have the federal government assume control.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
7. In what Bible, holy book, or whatever they want to call it
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 01:30 PM
Sep 2020

does it say anything about being wrong to wear a mask? How does one claim an attack on their religious freedoms when no issues of masks have ever been taught? Most religious books teach caring for others but that has been thrown out the window when they dismissed their God and made donald their god.

MineralMan

(146,189 posts)
8. Worry about that after we get Biden elected, OK?
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 01:33 PM
Sep 2020

It's time to focus on the election, not the SCOTUS. Don't let RBG's death distract you from that. It's time to make sure we don't lose in November. Nothing else matters right now.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
9. I'd bet courts would support a mask law that wasn't too harsh - Like reasonable fines vs. jail time.
Sat Sep 19, 2020, 01:38 PM
Sep 2020

Laws can be written that avoid judicial intervention.

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