Yesterday, when asked about opening up our country to go back to business, he said:
“I’m going to have to make a decision…but I would say without question it’s the biggest decision I’ve ever had to make.”
Wrong. That’s not how our democratic system works, as Harvard constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe has pointed out.. This is not Russia or Hungary. You don’t get to order anything.
Nothing.
The way our system has worked, for 232 years since the adoption of our constitution, is that the states have the general “police power” over health, education, and welfare.
During the formation of our country, states so feared the expanded powers of the new national government, that they insisted on amendments during the Constitution’s ratification. The Bill of Rights, ratified in 1791, was a protection of state power over the federal government in the service of protecting individual rights and freedoms from governmental overreach.
President Banana-Republic is in for a surprise when he “orders” any governor to do anything.