Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down governor’s stay-at-home order

  The battle between authoritarian governors and people who long for simple freedoms which were once guaranteed by the Constitution is starting to heat up. There are currently hundreds of COVID-19 lawsuits making their way through the various court systems and we are starting to get some decisions and they are coming down on the side of freedom.

  First a court ruled Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker had to allow gun shops to open, and then a court ruled Kentucky’s ban on in-person church services was unconstitutional, and now the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down Governor Tony Evers’ stay-at-home order. Here is more:

The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down Gov. Tony Evers’ coronavirus stay-at-home order Wednesday, ruling that his administration overstepped its authority when it extended it for another month without consulting legislators.

The 4-3 ruling essentially reopens the state, lifting caps on the size of gatherings, allowing people to travel as they please and allowing shuttered businesses to reopen, including bars and restaurants.

The decision let stand language that had closed schools, however, and local governments can still impose their own health restrictions. 

Chief Justice Patience Roggensack wrote for the majority that health secretary Andrea Palm’s order amounted to an emergency rule that she doesn’t have the power to create on her own.

“Rule-making exists precisely to ensure that kind of controlling, subjective judgement asserted by one unelected official, Palm, is not imposed in Wisconsin,” Roggensack, part of the court’s 5-2 conservative majority, wrote.

  It will be interesting to see how the cities and towns will react to this decision because according to the article the decision will allow them to implement the same restrictions at the local level, but this is still a pretty big victory and I hope this will lead to more totalitarian State restrictions being ruled unconstitutional all across this once free nation.

malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium