Even when emergency conditions require governments to exercize extraordinary powers, there are still limits to what the state can do when it comes to fundamental individual rights.
Not that some seem to care about such constitutional niceties:
The day will come when the coronavirus is tamed, America gets back to work, and there will be toilet paper on store shelves across the nation. But will governments return to their pre-crisis status, and surrender the powers they have activated in recent weeks?
Worrying about civil liberties during a pandemic may seem quaint. But with governments increasingly considering policies to more closely track and monitor individuals to prevent the spread of COVID-19, what's permitted and what's off limits are ripe topics for discussion.
The ever-expanding federal bureaucracy
has long been a target of conservative ire. Congress has given too much power to unelected, unaccountable civil servants, creating, in effect, a fourth and even fifth branch of government.
For all the left’s posturing and complaining against the Electoral College, it’s the Supreme Court that is actually looking into a long simmering problem that has
The Supreme Court ruled this week that states may remove voters from the rolls of those voters have not cast ballots in recent elections and have not responded to follow-up communications asking them to confirm their eligibility.
Some readers may recall when the Equal Rights Amendment was all the rage amonf Americaqn feminists. The proposed constitutional amendment would have prohibited sex discrimination at the federal and state levels of government. Many thought when the proposed amendment failed to reach the 1982 ratification deadline, it was a dead letter. Not so, say its supporters, who say they now need just one more state raitifcation to make the amendment part of the Constitution.
The Supreme Court sided with a Colorado baker who refused to create a custom wedding cake same sex couple as the baker said doing os would violate his religious beliefs. But there's more to this ruling than the headline.
Even motorcycles parked near the house are covered by the Fourth Amendment.