'I'm not going to put any pressure on any governor to open,' Trump said Tuesday. Still, Trump said he would be 'authorizing' states to reopen, potentially before federal social distancing guidelines are set to expire at the end of the month.
Though at times he echoed his claims of authority – which had been widely criticized by governors, lawmakers of both parties and constitutional scholars – Trump said he would speak with each governor about reopening their economies this week and signaled that he would support any state that decided to maintain lockdowns past May 1.
Governors, who for weeks have been enforcing a near-total shutdown of the country, vowed that they would determine when and how the country would return to work. The federal social distancing guidelines Trump announced last month likely influenced state officials, mayor and schools, but they were not binding.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said she is consulting with other Midwestern states about a path forward. "A good old fashioned mutiny every now and then is an exciting and invigorating thing to watch, especially when the mutineers need so much from the Captain," the president wrote."Too easy!" Beyond the states, some of the president’s Republican allies in Congress dismissed Trump’s declaration of absolute control.
reserves all powers not expressly given to the federal government to the states," explained Cole."The idea when the federal government was created was that the federal government is a government of limited powers." Fried pointed to the 1952 case in which the Supreme Court ruled President Harry Truman did not have the power to take control of the nation's steel mills despite a labor strike that threatened production during the Korean War.
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