Michelle Malkin | Sep 15, 2020 | Commentary | 29
Good news: The anti-mask mandate movement is gaining steam. Americans
yearning to breathe free are waking up from their pandemic stupor.
Common sense and constitutional principles, now more than ever, are
vital to a sovereign nation’s health.
On Monday, a federal judge rescinded Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Tom
Wolf’s shutdown orders restricting gatherings, forcing “nonessential”
business closures and directing citizens to stay at home to combat
COVID-19. U.S. District Judge William Stickman determined that the
sweeping measures violated “the right of assembly enshrined in the First
Amendment.” He noted Wolf’s hypocrisy in severely limiting indoor and
outdoor fairs, festivals, concerts and other gatherings and condemning a
small anti-lockdown protest of small-business owners (whom he called
“selfish,” “cowardly” and “unsafe”) — while marching with thousands of
non-socially distancing Black Lives Matter radicals in Harrisburg in
June.
Moreover, Stickman ruled, Pennsylvania’s stay-at-home order — a sweeping
population unlike any “in the history of our Commonwealth and our
Country” — violated the 14th Amendment’s due process rights to travel,
association and privacy. Similarly, Wolf’s extreme and open-ended power
grab designating and closing “nonessential” businesses undermined due
process protections “against arbitrary government action.”........
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