EUREKA! Federal judge rules Pennsylvania governor’s coronavirus restrictions unconstitutional

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If it goes to the Supremes, we cannot count on that spineless, pathetic loser Roberts.

Federal judge rules Pennsylvania governor’s coronavirus restrictions unconstitutional

By Anthony Leonardi | The Washington Examiner, | September 14, 2020:

A federal judge ruled that Gov. Tom Wolf’s business closures and gathering limits to decrease coronavirus transmission were unconstitutional.

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“Even in an emergency, the authority of government is not unfettered,” District Court Judge William Stickman wrote in a decision Monday. “The liberties protected by the Constitution are not fair-weather — freedoms in place when times are good but able to be cast aside in times of trouble.”

Stickman, a Trump appointee in the Western District of Pennsylvania, sided with the individual counties that brought the suit, ruling that parts of Wolf’s coronavirus restrictions violated both the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution.

Pennsylvania argued the restrictions, which included an indoor social gathering limit of 25 people, were a legitimate exercise of the state’s police powers during a public health emergency. However, Stickman concluded the language of the July 15 order describing the duration of restrictions, which reads “until further notice,” was too broad and that the congregate limits “violate the right of assembly enshrined in the First Amendment.”

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Stickman also took aim at the components of the state’s order that closed the operations of businesses, determining they violated both the Fourteenth Amendment’s due process clause, which prevents the government from depriving life, liberty, or property without due process, and the equal protection clause, which requires states to govern with impartial judgment.

Under Wolf’s three-phase reopening plan, only “life-sustaining” businesses were permitted to reopen, such as grocery stores, while schools were ordered closed. Stickman sided with plaintiffs who said that the decision to differentiate between “life-sustaining” and “non-life-sustaining” was an “arbitrary, ad hoc process.”

Small businesses ordered to shut down, the plaintiffs argued, often sell the same products or services as big-box retailers. Stickman said it is “paradoxical” that an order meant to keep people apart allowed the largest retailers with the highest occupancy limits, such as Home Depot and Walmart, to remain open.

“The Court recognizes that Defendants were facing a pressing situation to formulate a plan to address the nascent COVID-19 pandemic… But in making that choice, they were not merely coming up with a draft of some theoretical white paper, but rather, determining who could work and who could not,” Stickman said.

Stickman added that the “solution to a national crisis can never be permitted to supersede the commitment to individual liberty.”

The case was filed by Butler, Greene, Washington, and Fayette counties as well as individual businesses and Republican lawmakers. Mike Kelly, a Republican congressman, was also a plaintiff in the case.

Wolf has lifted the statewide stay-at-home order and allowed some businesses in certain counties with low transmission rates to reopen but has kept other orders in place. Last week, Wolf announced that restaurants will be permitted to reopen on Sept. 21 at 50% capacity as long as staff and guests follow social distancing procedures and mask-wearing.

In reaction to Stickman’s ruling, Thomas King, the attorney for those challenging the restrictions, called the decision a “complete and total victory” for counties, businesses, and others affected by the order.

“You can’t order the entire population of Pennsylvania to stay at home,” King said.

Pennsylvania Speaker of the House Bryan Cutler and House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff, both Republicans, also praised the ruling, saying that the opinion “offers some form of hope that a return to normalcy might be on the horizon,” according to the Morning Call.

The state Department of Health on Monday announced 1,258 new positive cases, bringing the statewide total to 145,063 reported cases.

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dapto
dapto
3 years ago

Can the peolpe lock up the governor and mayor now ?

TARDRE
TARDRE
3 years ago
Reply to  dapto

You would think it would already have occurred.

We need a serious house cleaning.

tituspullo
tituspullo
3 years ago

this judge is a white male trump appointee who went to college and law school in the midwest. he was not brainwashed at the ivy league or oxford, did not marry a foreign woman. and didn’t make the rounds in DC kissing the butts of the deep state. $100 says the supreme court will overturn him, just to send a message that you don’t mess with the deep state.

anonQ
anonQ
3 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

I wasn’t aware the judge is a Trump appointee. I hope you are wrong, but your scenario is the way allot of these rulings go. We’ll have to wait and see.

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tituspullo
tituspullo
3 years ago
Reply to  anonQ

unless wikipedia is wrong, i’m right. took me 1 minute to find this out on the internet.

Angeline
Angeline
3 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

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Bikinis not Burkas
Bikinis not Burkas
3 years ago
Reply to  anonQ

Think yourselves lucky, we the plebs of Australia are denied a Bill of Rights!

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago

Could have done without the “Civil War”.

movingwaters
movingwaters
3 years ago
Reply to  anonQ

Judge William Strickman is a Trump appointment. Trump did good, didn’t he?

oceanfloor1
oceanfloor1
3 years ago
Reply to  anonQ

Might as well post that all over Marxa/Maskachusetts too.

Amit Kumar
Amit Kumar
3 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

shutting down small biz but allowing the Big retailors who bribe the demonrats is definately disciminatory and ruling against the scumbag governor is correct.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  Amit Kumar

That could readily be the reason that so many Big Retailers have made HUGE donations to blm.

Payback bribes.

TARDRE
TARDRE
3 years ago

So amazon pays millions to BLM/Antifa/dnc. The looting and burning has forced hundreds of businesses to now go through amazon to sell online because the insurance companies said we ain’t paying for that.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  TARDRE

I could be mistaken, but I believe that Walmart gave even more than amazon.

TARDRE
TARDRE
3 years ago

Walmart is the only real amazon challenger to amazon. But you would be wrong.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  TARDRE

Walmart pledges ONE HUNDRED MILLION U.S. YANKEE GREENBACK DOLLARS.
https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-ceo-email-condemns-racial-violence-pledges-100-million-donation-2020-6

And, amazon pledges only TEN MILLION U.S. YANKEE GREENBACK DOLLARS.

https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-ceo-email-condemns-racial-violence-pledges-100-million-donation-2020-6

Looks as if, little one, YOU ARE WRONG AGAIN, just as you were about the pederast “priests”.

movingwaters
movingwaters
3 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

Can’t wait to find out if Deep State Roberts will try to get this overturned if it goes to the Supremes.

tituspullo
tituspullo
3 years ago
Reply to  movingwaters

this young judge’s reasoning was just too clear and simple and painfully correct. you know that roberts and the four fascists will concoct some 87-page twisting lie to overrule him

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago
Reply to  movingwaters

Hopefully doesn’t go there and if so he grows some of the Constitutional moxi required to stand on it no matter what the Leftist have on him and finally become a true Patriot…!

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

” … did not marry a foreign woman …”

Do you have something against our First Lady?

tituspullo
tituspullo
3 years ago

i believe she was an american citizen when the donald married her, unlike gorsuch’s wife

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

Naturalized before, or after, marriage … still makes them a “foreign woman”.

Gorsuch’s problem is that he was raised in the church of rome. K-8, he went to a church of rome school, and high school (preparatory school) he attended a church of rome school. Moreover, he attended weekly mass, with his family, growing up.

At least his wife is not a member of the idol worshippers.

tituspullo
tituspullo
3 years ago

he now proudly attends a non-catholic “church” in the peoples republic of boulder that worships homosexuality and climate change. he’s about as conservative as ho chi minh.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

So, he stopped attending one church that worships homosexuality and climate change and found another one that worships homosexuality and climate change.

You can take the boy out of rome, but you cannot take rome out of the boy.

tituspullo
tituspullo
3 years ago

yeah, i think it’s the american version of the church of england (episcopal?), which i guess is due to his english wife

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  tituspullo

The Episcopal Church? The one with the lesbian bishops? Well, at least they don’t have NEARLY as much of a problem with pederasty as the church of rome. That’s a step in the right direction.

TARDRE
TARDRE
3 years ago

Public school teachers are 82% more likely to rape/molest than the priests.

Where is your false outrage?

Muslims also believe it not to be sinful to rape young boys. That’s in their religion. Where you at on that handjob?

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  TARDRE

Where do you get your statistics? From what I’ve read, 99% of church of rome priests are pederasts. No outrage, simply a statement of fact.

ALL moslem males are homosexuals. Raping little boys is part and parcel of mohammedan culture.

Are you offended that this moniker ridicules YOUR prophet, or what? Or, do you like little boys too, like church of rome priests and moslems?

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago

Now now he only is looking at what “fake news” covers up the secular criminals and is intentionally overlooked for their attack on anything remotely involving Faith in Christ Jesus.

All persons harming a child fall under Jesus’s only personal wish for a violent terrifying executionary death = Luke 17:2

TARDRE
TARDRE
3 years ago

Made up facts are for losers who have no argument.

Not stomping the homosexuals that went into the priesthood back in the 70’s and 80’s is the churches biggest failure. Homosexuals are the number one pedophiles. I don’t get why the church let them get away with it.

Meanwhile union protected pedophiles get moved to other schools to do it all over again.

I am very disappointed with the church for sure and wish every homosexual priest to be arrested and jailed for life.

But same goes for every walk of life. Yet you just harp on the minority of the church.

Telling

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  TARDRE

Then, little loser, whey did you make up facts?

Pederasts, whether school teachers of “priests” of the church of rome, should be taken to the public square, publicly horsewhipped, then hanged by the neck until dead.

It’s not “a minority” it’s an OVERWHELMING MAJORITY. And, it’s not “the church”, it’s the idol worshipping church of rome.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

Wha about the rest of the states?
This is a federal election… Sure it will be appealed but in time for the rest of the states to benefit? DEMS will steal the election with mass ballot voting.

Biden Campaign Forms ‘Special Litigation’ Unit To Contest Election Results
By Jack Davis
Published September 14, 2020 at 10:40am
https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-campaign-forms-special-litigation-unit-contest-election-results/

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
3 years ago

Forced Tyrannical Control over good decent people,…. and NONE over the savage animal protesters
That’s what Democrat politicians are really about

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lostlegends
lostlegends
3 years ago

The exercise of true white privilege is in reading and following Pam Geller.

movingwaters
movingwaters
3 years ago
Reply to  lostlegends

I had always thought “white privilege” was about being forced to pay for other people’s stuff. It does bring to mind that the POS Lyndon Johnson would seem to be headed for a bad address for eternity. God gets the last word.

LittleRoot_48
LittleRoot_48
3 years ago
Reply to  lostlegends

I happen to like Pam Geller.

freepetta
freepetta
3 years ago

It’s about time someone was rational. No Covid Joey B has to come out of the basement!

CARRENO  BARTOX
CARRENO BARTOX
3 years ago

Lucid mind – KUDOS !

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago

The iniquity is strong with Democ-Rat Governors + mayors.

movingwaters
movingwaters
3 years ago
Reply to  mtman2

Speaking of the subject of iniquity; the root of sin. Let me recommend a powerful book on the subject. Most likely it will bring tears to your eyes. It is “The Mystery of Iniquity Revealed” by Julio Alvarado. Forward by Miles Monroe. Mr. Alvarado was a serious sinner himself from a family of serious sin until God saved him delivered him out of the madness decades ago. Before he wrote this book he had been serving God for several decades. He wasn’t some newbie Christian just writing a book. This book is clearly from the Holy Spirit. Next to the Bible it may be the deepest and most revealing work I have ever read. You can find it on Amazon.com. They let you read a free sample to see if you want to buy it. I read it and new I had to have the book.

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago
Reply to  movingwaters

YES – it seems that a greater Awakening comes about with Messianic Jude-ans who were truly raised in The Scriptures…!

All of us can learn from their fuller experience which Alvorado awakened to in his deep spiritual walk and now full indepth connection to that way of life in knowing and hear God as did Jesus in being raised that way and taught to embrace fully the inner Kingdom of God.

Should be shared with all having ears to hear such a deeper meaning meant for all as Julio Alvarado came to understand.
* Do repeat this mans message at every opportunity…!

PS – Would be a great awareness for the President and everyone in the White House to learn of all around him…!!!

movingwaters
movingwaters
3 years ago
Reply to  mtman2

You must have had some awareness of this author. I had never heard of him until I heard him interviewed. I think it was on Sheila Zilinsky’s show. I believe he was coming out with another book by now; have to check. As you seem to know “The Mystery of Iniquity Revealed” explores the Greek and Hebrew understanding of this issue of iniquity. Most people here sin preached all the time. Seldom is the cancerous heart and mind root of iniquity discussed in depth. My personal belief is that many people who would never seriously study the Bible or give thought to God might well cry out to be saved if they read this book. But it is not a shallow book.

Yes, President Trump, all of Congress, all of the Supremes, and everyone in position of any authority would likely face a deep self examination upon reading this book.

BITEME_Democrats
BITEME_Democrats
3 years ago
Reply to  movingwaters

NO PERSON ON THIS EARTH IS PERFECT OR WITHOUT SIN. Mankind fights a SPIRITUAL BATTLE every single day, every hour, every minute. Demons and angels battle over our souls without our ever knowing it, yet they are there. I have studied the Bible and these things for over 40 years and what people do not understand or even realize is that the battle is for your soul. When a person decides to do evil, harm, or a crime, no matter how small or large, some demon or demons have whispered in that person’s mind and convinced them to do it. NO IT IS NOT DEMON POSSESSION because of FREE WILL, unless you personally decide to GIVE YOUR SOUL TO SATAN, which then, Satan will send as many demons into your body to control you. That does not happen often because God gave man FREE WILL and there is an inclination in every human TO SURVIVE, TO PROSPER, TO LIVE CIVILLY UNLESS THEY DO SO SURROUNDED BY EVIL. Then some people will try to escape that. Some people will be weak enough spiritually to just give up. But, those who give up, are what we are seeing in Portland, etc.. who shoot innocent people and who mock all that is good. THOSE people are DEMON-RUN and may not be demon-possessed, meaning, they do whatever the voice says in their head.

HERE’S THE KICKER: Satan/demons can only place thoughts in your head. He cannot READ YOUR THOUGHTS. Those are yours alone and are under your FREE WILL to act upon or to refuse.

We all get thoughts of one kind or another, but it is what we do next that tests us/defines who we really are. Satan’s JOB is to take as many souls as he can away from God and the moment you relinquish those thoughts to Satan, God cannot help you UNTIL YOU ASK GOD TO HELP YOU, which Satan will do everything he can to prevent you from doing.

JESUS IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN DELIVER SUCH A PERSON.

I have seen the spiritual world and it is NOT for the faint of heart or for those who are timid. It takes an EXTREMELY STRONG SPIRITUAL PERSON, WHO HAS A DEEP AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST to see that, work with people who are evil, and who have a lot of faith to deliver these people.

HOWEVER, A PRAYING PERSON WHO BELIEVES IN JESUS CHRIST IS THE NEXT BEST THING TO IT ALL! Praying over this country WILL SEND THE FORCES OF LIGHT, MEANING POWERFUL ANGELS TO DEFEAT THE DEMONS OF DARKNESS. And, as we near the end before Jesus returns, Satan has unleashed millions of more demons on mankind. So, if you are trying to make up your mind, soon you may not be able to as demons will be all around you persuading you NOT to turn to God.

It is not really all that complicated. Just know that the SPIRITUAL BATTLE is an unseen battle over every single person on this earth, INCLUDING THE CHRISTIAN who thinks they are safe. THEY ARE NOT SAFE. If you are NOT praying, NOT reading God’s word, which Satan hates praying and the Bible, then you are unprotected. Yet, you may still be covered under the blood of Jesus, but the battle for your soul continues. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ONCE SAVED ALWAYS SAVED. Demons are here TO CHANGE YOUR MIND and STEAL YOUR SOUL. ONLY YOUR FREE WILL CAN TAKE IT BACK AND GIVE IT TO JESUS.

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago

“Many will be saved so as by fire.”
“Many will cry Lord Lordxand I’ll answer I never knew you…”

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago
Reply to  movingwaters

Yes of course as stated should be shared all around.
Tho his books to be sent enmasse(boxes of’em) to the White House would help awaken deeper Faith now needed for the next yrs going forward for the spiritual war, strain and the toll will be great but with a closer connection to the Father in OUR highest office as a nation is paramount…!

BITEME_Democrats
BITEME_Democrats
3 years ago
Reply to  mtman2

………..”YOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS”, (Matthew 7:15, NKJV) which says everything about ALL people, such as the majority of Democrats and RINOS, who claim to be good people, BUT WHO ARE NOT.

God KNOWS none of us are perfect, but it is what we do NEXT when we recognize that, THAT MATTERS TO GOD AND TO YOUR SOUL.

very old white guy
very old white guy
3 years ago

Don’t ya just love the words “life sustaining” as if the job that buys the groceries, puts the roof over your head and buys the clothes is not life sustaining. Only a bureaucrats could think that way.

BITEME_Democrats
BITEME_Democrats
3 years ago

That is because those bureaucrats are getting paid by taxpayers even if they have to stay home.

WHEN AMERICANS STAND UP TO BULLIES, BULLIES WILL SLINK BACK INTO THEIR DEEP, DARK, DINGY HOLES.

BITEME_Democrats
BITEME_Democrats
3 years ago

The Declaration of Independence GIVES ALL AMERICANS the right to the pursuit of happiness, which means, OPEN UP YOUR BUSINESSES AND THEN FILE LAWSUITS AGAINST YOUR LIBERAL LEADERS. These liberal and moderate Leaders HAVE NO RIGHT UNDER OUR CONSTITUTION TO DEPRIVE YOU OF THE RIGHT TO EARN A LIVING AND/OR OPERATE YOUR BUSINESS. Stop being afraid!!!!

STAND TOGETHER in the class action lawsuits against DEMOCRATS AND RINOS, Americans!

mtman2
mtman2
3 years ago

Yes – no one forces anyone to patronize a particular business.
This comes undet Right to Liberty = not limit it to selected places while destroying other peoples livelyhoods and their lives…!

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