Michigan's Emergency Stay-at-Home Order Is a Hot Mess. Now 4 Sheriffs Say They Won't Be Enforcing Parts of It.
"We question some restrictions that she has imposed as overstepping her executive authority."
"We question some restrictions that she has imposed as overstepping her executive authority."
None have yet emerged that can clearly stem the tide of the ongoing pandemic.
The $349 billion loan program is meant to help small companies hit hard by social distancing.
Legal scholars Lindsay Wiley and Steve Vladeck explain why courts should not give special deference to the government in cases challenging the constitutionality of anti-coronavirus policies.
Here are 4 questions the independent congressman and the rest of the country will have to consider
He has no colleagues or staff, but he's supposed to provide oversight on $454 billion in coronavirus spending—nearly equal to the annual budget for Medicare.
The more punitive the approach to public health, the fiercer the backlash.
Trump isn't absolved of his own failures in confronting the pandemic, but the WHO's response to the coronavirus destroyed much of its credibility and damaged the field of public health.
Judge Anne Marie Coyle has rejected every emergency attempt to reduce prison populations.
The WHO arguably failed at its most basic mission of stopping the spread of a global pandemic, but it's still willing to hector people about their drinking habits.
Border counties are now prohibited from selling to anyone without proof of residency.
Setting the cops on social-distancing scofflaws is dangerous to public health and a free society.
Alexandria, Virginia, is the latest city to entertain demands to cancel rent payments during the current pandemic.
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Permitting telemedicine and recognizing medical licenses from other states will reduce future doctor shortages.
It's not the politicians who have the power to reopen America, or at least the parts that are now closed. It's individuals, families, businesses, and religious congregations.
China's dictators are quick to take extreme measures against whatever they see as a problem.
A federal judge defended religious freedom by blocking a misguided ban on drive-in Easter services.
The Court's decision follows almost exactly the same line of reasoning as I had expected.
"We have deep concerns whether America's generosity has been put to the best use possible."
The president has a history of asserting powers he does not actually have.
The city said that food-packaging regulations stand in the way. That's not true.
What happens to bars in a world where bars as we've always known them are forbidden?
Government officials have only themselves to blame if citizens decline to share their information.
And more coronavirus stimulus spending could send that number soaring higher.
Don't let states and cities get away with onerous rules that in no way help to contain COVID-19.
And they are taking full advantage of the opportunity
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The coronavirus is no excuse to intrude on people's lives unnecessarily. Tech provides decentralized systems for contact tracing.
The president again insisted that the federal government can open the country by fiat. It cannot.
The governor's new stay-at-home order is arbitrary and far too strict.
They trade tips and manuals through a decentralized information-sharing network. Biomedical technicians say it's the fastest and easiest way to get life-saving information.
"Delaying abortions by weeks does nothing to further the State's interest in combatting COVID-19," they say.
A New York Times Magazine forum highlights the moral implications of suppressing economic activity.
Plus a round-up of zero-tolerance corona crackdowns
Most will avoid significant academic losses in the long term.
Ill workers in processing facilities, the forced death of restaurants, and national and international storage and shipping disruptions all threaten our food supply.
General Motors is being charged import taxes on parts it needs to build ventilators. Its requests for relief have gone unanswered.
They ignored early warning signs and pretended that everything would be OK.
Some places are releasing nonviolent offenders during the COVID-19 outbreak. Mississippi won't free a man who failed to hand in his phone.
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"Presidential emergency action documents” concocted under prior administrations purport to give him such authority, according to a New York Times op-ed.
"The true number of infected people worldwide may already have reached several tens of millions," two University of Gottingen researchers say.
For all the good prohibition might do to reduce domestic violence, it won't actually solve that problem and it will certainly cause others.
The Cook County jail is the country's largest known single source of new coronavirus infections.
The Liberty University president thinks two reporters' coverage was unfair—so he wants them arrested.
Can we take government officials at their word that they'll eventually abandon their new powers?
Export restrictions only make sense if you're unable to understand the obvious consequences of that policy.