I’m interested in this topic too. I’ve had conversations with a town police officer and county sheriff in recent weeks, and both told me they’ve been instructed, by the state Attorney General and county District Attorneys, not to pursue investigating reports of criminal acts related to Covid-19 mitigations. They said verbally instructed …
I’m interested in this topic too. I’ve had conversations with a town police officer and county sheriff in recent weeks, and both told me they’ve been instructed, by the state Attorney General and county District Attorneys, not to pursue investigating reports of criminal acts related to Covid-19 mitigations. They said verbally instructed (I asked if they’d received written instructions and they said no.) So, now I’m trying to use FOIA tools to find out if there have been written instructions distributed among prosecutors, police, sheriffs and judges in the last two years.
Merger of public health and law enforcement is a thing that Todd Callender has been talking about a lot — legally executed through 2002 Homeland Security Act, 2004 Project Bioshield Act, 2005 PREP Act, and 2006 Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act.
Also relevant is Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts opinion, in an early Constitutional case (South Bay Pentecostal v. Newsom, May 2020)
that the judicial branch may not provide constitutional review of governmental executive and legislative acts during a declared emergency. Roberts claimed it was because judges are appointed, and so farther from the electorate than legislators and executives.
But more likely, the source of his opinion was a section in the PREP Act of 2005 (42 USC247d-6d(b)(7) that “no court of the United States, or of any State, shall have subject matter jurisdiction to review, whether by mandamus or otherwise, any action of the Secretary” of Health and Human Services, under a “declaration” made by the Secretary. So Congress essentially granted US-HHS Secretary dictatorial powers that are triggered as soon as the Secretary declares a public health emergency, and at the same time, Congress rendered itself and all US courts impotent to depose the HHS dictator once he or she has claimed that ruling power.
I’m interested in this topic too. I’ve had conversations with a town police officer and county sheriff in recent weeks, and both told me they’ve been instructed, by the state Attorney General and county District Attorneys, not to pursue investigating reports of criminal acts related to Covid-19 mitigations. They said verbally instructed (I asked if they’d received written instructions and they said no.) So, now I’m trying to use FOIA tools to find out if there have been written instructions distributed among prosecutors, police, sheriffs and judges in the last two years.
Merger of public health and law enforcement is a thing that Todd Callender has been talking about a lot — legally executed through 2002 Homeland Security Act, 2004 Project Bioshield Act, 2005 PREP Act, and 2006 Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act.
Also relevant is Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts opinion, in an early Constitutional case (South Bay Pentecostal v. Newsom, May 2020)
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/19A1044
that the judicial branch may not provide constitutional review of governmental executive and legislative acts during a declared emergency. Roberts claimed it was because judges are appointed, and so farther from the electorate than legislators and executives.
But more likely, the source of his opinion was a section in the PREP Act of 2005 (42 USC247d-6d(b)(7) that “no court of the United States, or of any State, shall have subject matter jurisdiction to review, whether by mandamus or otherwise, any action of the Secretary” of Health and Human Services, under a “declaration” made by the Secretary. So Congress essentially granted US-HHS Secretary dictatorial powers that are triggered as soon as the Secretary declares a public health emergency, and at the same time, Congress rendered itself and all US courts impotent to depose the HHS dictator once he or she has claimed that ruling power.