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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
My understanding is that it's not exactly that the Governor's orders were thrown out, it's that a Republican state Supreme Court decided that state statutes which give the governor emergency powers and have been around for decades are unconstitutional. In other words, it's not that Whitmer abused her powers -- it's that the Legislature did something unconstitutional decades ago. Hard to imagine a Republican court doing that to a Republican governor during an emergency that is killing people.
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By the way, I seldom reply to the same post twice, but since the 4 "Republican" Judges can be seen as misguided by politics, why can't the Dem Governor? They were all elected by the entire state. It was not a Gerrymandered* outcome. You're saying the 4 Judges, that the state entrusted with interpreting the Constitution, should be seen as suspect because they disagreed with how the Dem Gov interpreted a statute? Fuck out of here.
*the only gerrymandering is that Ohio stole Toledo from us, and thus took away a likely blue medium sized city.
