Pennsylvania Coronavirus Restrictions Struck Down By Federal Court

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A federal judge struck down Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s orders restricting mass gatherings and shutting down business amid the Covid-19 pandemic as unconstitutional

Monday, as lockdown restrictions and business closures continue to be a major source of contention as the pandemic stretches on.... [+]U.S. District Judge William S. Stickman IV, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, ruled that Wolf’s order restricting indoor and outdoor gatherings violated the First Amendment’s Freedom of Assembly Clause, and also struck down orders directing business closures and the state’s stay-at-home order as violating the Fourteenth Amendment.

The lawsuit was filed in May by four Western Pennsylvania counties, as well as business owners and lawmakers, and their specific grievances included a March stay-at-home order that required all but “life-sustaining” businesses to close, as well as a subsequent waiver program allowing certain businesses to reopen that washad already reopened most businesses with social distancing requirements and capacity restrictions, and limited mass gatherings to 25 people indoors or 250 people outdoors, but...

 

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Pennsylvania wake the fuk up! 9/14–195,614 deaths! By the end of this week 200,000 deaths 💔💔 But sure Pennsylvania you go out to dinner. 💔💔💔

“But even in an emergency, the authority of government is not unfettered.”

Stop Denying Science

well is it constitutional to shut down PRIVATE businesses using GOVERNMENT powers? I thought the constitution was strictly against that.

A federal “judge” - let me guess appointed by an admitted fraud, the Donald

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