Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously wrote that an advantage of America's federal system of government is that a state may "Serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." In a less celebrated passage of the same opinion, Justice Brandeis acknowledged that this was a mixed blessing with the potential to produce "Arbitrary, capricious, or unreasonable" actions by the states.
Their states have, in effect, become laboratories of despotism.
Predictably, Newsom is the defendant in several federal and state lawsuits, plus at least one class action suit.
Even as President Trump announced that federal guidelines recommending sheltering in place will end on April 30, and Republican governors are gradually reopening their states, Democratic governors have made it clear that they plan to follow the California model of indefinite lockdowns.
This refusal to seriously discuss reopening has also been adopted by the blue states of the Northeast.
Returning to Justice Brandeis, it's useful to consider another of his memorable effusions: "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent." Even if you were able to suspend disbelief long enough to accept that Gavin Newsom means well, you could never be convinced that locking down a state that produces 14.5 percent of the nation's GDP can be good for the nation or the residents of the Golden State.
The same applies to New York Gov. Cuomo, whose state produces 8.2 percent of national GDP. They shuffle around their labs conducting social and economic experiments.
https://spectator.org/blue-states-become-laboratories-of-despotism/
Their states have, in effect, become laboratories of despotism.
Predictably, Newsom is the defendant in several federal and state lawsuits, plus at least one class action suit.
Even as President Trump announced that federal guidelines recommending sheltering in place will end on April 30, and Republican governors are gradually reopening their states, Democratic governors have made it clear that they plan to follow the California model of indefinite lockdowns.
This refusal to seriously discuss reopening has also been adopted by the blue states of the Northeast.
Returning to Justice Brandeis, it's useful to consider another of his memorable effusions: "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent." Even if you were able to suspend disbelief long enough to accept that Gavin Newsom means well, you could never be convinced that locking down a state that produces 14.5 percent of the nation's GDP can be good for the nation or the residents of the Golden State.
The same applies to New York Gov. Cuomo, whose state produces 8.2 percent of national GDP. They shuffle around their labs conducting social and economic experiments.
https://spectator.org/blue-states-become-laboratories-of-despotism/
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