Rural counties rebel against Sisolak orders
As COVID-19 continues to rage across the state, a growing number of rural counties in Nevada are pushing back against the state’s pandemic restrictions.
While the resolutions seek to override many of Gov. Steve Sisolak’s directives relating to restrictions on businesses and public gatherings, the governor and Attorney General Aaron Ford, in a joint statement issued Friday night, called them “mere statements and nothing more,” and said that the counties’ actions have “no force of law.”
Lyon County on Thursday became the latest rural county to rebel against Sisolak’s emergency directives that put restrictions on businesses, with the county’s board of commissioners passing a resolution on a unanimous 5-0 vote that declared a state of economic emergency “due to COVID-19 gubernatorial-mandated regulations and orders.”
The resolution, which mirrors one passed by White Pine County in December, claims that the governor has implemented the restrictions without “meaningful input” from rural communities, which it claims violates their constitutional rights. Elko and Eureka counties have also passed resolutions that call on the governor to lift business and gathering restrictions on rural counties.
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