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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe courts are destroying America's ability to fight pandemics
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Ian Millhiser
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I wrote about how right-wing judges are permanently dismantling much of America's ability to fight pandemics and protect public health.
The courts are destroying Americas ability to fight pandemics
Public health crises require a dynamic government that makes quick decisions. GOP judges want to prevent that.
vox.com
10:31 AM · Jul 27, 2021
Ian Millhiser
@imillhiser
I wrote about how right-wing judges are permanently dismantling much of America's ability to fight pandemics and protect public health.
The courts are destroying Americas ability to fight pandemics
Public health crises require a dynamic government that makes quick decisions. GOP judges want to prevent that.
vox.com
10:31 AM · Jul 27, 2021
https://www.vox.com/2021/7/27/22594374/courts-covid-delta-pandemic-supreme-court-brett-kavanaugh-public-health-destroy
Imagine if, in the spring of 2020, Wisconsins public health agencies had needed to get permission from the states heavily gerrymandered, GOP-controlled legislature before they could implement policies intended to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
Thats the sort of future that a raft of recent court decisions, including two handed down last Friday, could be setting the country up for one where the government has limited ability to fight this pandemic and any others that arise.
The first court decision, written by a Donald Trump appointee to the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, imposes strict limits on Californias ability to close down in-person instruction at private schools. Judge Daniel Collinss opinion in Branch v. Newsom claims that such restrictions run afoul of parents rights to to direct the upbringing and education of children under their control.
(All of the relevant schools in Branch are currently allowed to hold in-person classes, but the Ninth Circuits order prevents California from imposing many new restrictions even if the pandemic worsens and public health officials believe that they need limit in-person gatherings to prevent outbreaks.)
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The courts are destroying America's ability to fight pandemics (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jul 2021
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Kaleva
(36,294 posts)1. I don't think the courts were much help in fighting the Spanish Flu pandemic either.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)2. We're learning what conservative judges are good for and it ain't much.
KT2000
(20,572 posts)3. Get this issue into the courts
as a toxic case. The Daubert standard would stand up against the delusions that have greater rights in the GOP. A pandemic is indeed a toxic case in my mind.
Zeitghost
(3,856 posts)4. Judges don't make decisions based on public health
They rule on the law. If a law is bad public policy that impedes public health, then the law needs to be changed. If the politicians in charge won't change the law, the voters need to toss them aside.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)5. The legal profession is the basis for American political system
The theory is that the truth can be discerned by 12 naïve persons exposed to two competing lines of bullshit.