I think the upshot is this will give some employers cover to impose a mandate that they would not have been able to otherwise.

Josh Blackman

Private citizens enforce the law. The [state] government has no role in enforcing it, so basically every Texas citizen is now a private attorney general.

Lindsay Wiley're basically trying to take an old statute and pour new life into it, i think often courts are skeptical when the government looks at this 50-year-old statute and finds the exact authority needed to address this sort of urgent crisis.

The President should be able to make important decisions with vigor, independence, and dispatch, the President should have the greatest latitude to issue pardons, precisely because the President should have the greatest latitude to pursue what he sees as the common good. Limiting the President's power to issue pardons will limit the President's power to promote what Hamilton referred to as 'the tranquility of the commonwealth.'.

President Trump tried to withhold funding from so-called sanctuary cities. But the courts largely rejected those efforts.

Once you go beyond people in federal facilities, you're really intruding on what the state's responsible for.

I don't think that The PHSA statute can be read broadly enough to apply to all people merely moving on an interstate highway, once you go beyond people in federal facilities, you're really intruding on what the state's responsible for.