No governor yet claims jurisdiction over the International Space Station but the astronauts have a lot of explaining to do when they return to earth.
Governors ordering around people 250 miles above their states seems far-fetched.
Too, did the notion of governors usurping the role of legislatures.
Surely the spacemen ran afoul, if for those brief moments that they orbited above Burlington, Bennington, Barre, and Brattleboro, the Orwellian edict of Vermont Governor Phil Scott that forbids dining with people outside of one's immediate household.
Three thousand miles to the west, the same governor who yawned at the vandalism and violence that plagued her state's most populous city this summer wants citizens to call the cops on anyone who violates her ukase forbidding gatherings greater than six.
California Governor Gavin Newsom going out to dinner with friends and sending his kids to an in-person private school does not strike as the repugnant part.
Ditto for Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer seeking to go boating on Memorial Day Weekend or the wife of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker traveling when her husband issued a travel ban and stay-at-home order early during the pandemic.
Friday, November 27, 2020
Come the Grinches
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