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Does the US not have any emergency clause? If it is truly needed, I think even the US would be able to do it.
by enitihas 7y ago
Does the US not have any emergency clause? If it is truly needed, I think even the US would be able to do it.
- bpodgursky 7y agoIt would; I'm not saying this is an immutable law of nature. But the threshold is going to be extremely high -- I really, really don't think a .5-1% death rate is going to sway the SC, unless they are convinced that existing measures are utterly incapable of dealing with this. (And for good reason -- this disease could easily go on for months. If the CDC can call a mandatory quarantine, does that mean it's valid to cancel elections in the interim? For how long? These are real concerns.)
- dukoid 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law_in_the_United_Stat...
- ta999999171 7y agoWe've been in a "state of emergency" for multiple Presidents...