The US constitution isn't a suicide pact - Robert Jackson, USSC

Started by Patrick2, May 10, 2020, 05:10:11 PM

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Patrick2


In times of calamity or potential calamity the state has to execute extraordinary powers.  During the civil war, Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in Maryland, and regularly tapped the electronic media of the day, telegraph wires.  During WW2, Roosevelt took over the whole economy, and had the FBI tap all electronic communication into and out of the US.  Lots of other examples, mostly wartime, but as Trump said, the fight against coronavirus is like a war.  "War is the health of the state" - I know, I know.  But the Bill of Rights can't be construed in a way that directly leads to millions of deaths, because that is illogical.

ldub23

This a war we  have already  lost. Now the deaths from no elective surgeries, no cancer screenings, suicides, famine will add  up to millions worldwide. I always said the constitution was what 5 people on the supreme court say it is. Little did i know its really nothing but a meaningless piece of aging paper any state governor can spit on.