They’re back! NCLA Executive Director Mark Chenoweth leads a raucous roundtable discussion with NCLA litigators regarding the continued violation of our constitutional rights by governors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve also added a bonus announcement of the state winner of our King George III Prize calling out the worst abuser of civil liberties in 2020!
We first addressed the issue last June, now we’re checking back in with NCLA litigators Harriet Hageman, Michael DeGrandis, Jared McClain, Caleb Kruckenberg, and Jenin Younes, who are hard at work taking legal action against governors and governments who have overstepped statutory authority, especially during the pandemic.
Despite the increasingly good news about the rate of infection and the unprecedented speed of vaccine deployment, many federal, state and local governments stubbornly refuse to let go of their stranglehold on our most precious civil liberties. NCLA continues to work overtime to restore the constitutional guardrails on the Administrative State’s pandemic response, and we‘ve had some victories in our fight to save civil liberties from power-mad governors we’d like to share. But there’s still lots of work yet to be done.
Timecodes:
0:00 Intro
0:36 Winner of King George III Prize
05:20 Mark Chenoweth Introduces Panelists
06:38 Harriet Hageman on Governors’ Devastating Response to Pandemic
13:40 Michael DeGrandis on Massachusetts’s Desrosiers v. Baker Case and Cert Petition to SCOTUS
23:30 Jenin Younes on how Governor Cuomo Circumvents Lawmaking Process in New York
30:48 Jared McClain on NCLA Cases Against Governor Murphy in New Jersey
42:53 Caleb Kruckenberg on CDC Eviction Moratorium and NCLA Case Brown v. CDC
50:14 Mark Chenoweth on how Governor Wolf Upended System of Government in Pennsylvania
57:14 Q&A
1:15:16 Final Remarks
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