Governors are getting pushback from those who say their constitutional rights are being denied over coronavirus stay-at-home restrictions.
, with sign-toting and horn-blowing activists urging governors to ease stay-at-home restrictions put in place to combat the coronavirus.
"They provide security for me on a daily basis," Beshear said."I trust them them. They know what they're doing, and I couldn't be in better hands." The orders can be challenged on the basis that they're overly broad, he said, or that they don't properly weigh the individual restrictions against public health threats.
"The important thing to realize is that particularly in the initial phase of a pandemic, the courts will be highly deferential to the states," Turley said."But that will wane over time." States can even impose restrictions on protests, Marcosson said, as long as the restrictions fall in line with the approach needed for religious ones, particularly that they aren't aimed solely at protests against the orders.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron tweeted on Sunday that, "Dissent and disagreement are necessary for any healthy government. Threats of violence are not and are unacceptable."Mnuchin takes credit for adding Trump's name to coronavirus stimulus checks Some of the leaders say the specific circumstances of their state do not merit such a mandate, others have advocated for individual responsibility and a few have said they are following the advice of their own state health officials.
The country's system of government was set up that way, to give states the predominant central power to protect their populations from public health threats. The federal government, though, does have something states don’t: deep pockets. “But Congress hasn’t done that,” Marcosson said. “And until and unless Congress does that, which seems unlikely, then the states have the authority to deal with this issue.”
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