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The President could not order Georgia closed internally or close the border between Georgia and South Carolina because the President does not have that power.
by gamblor956 7y ago
The President could not order Georgia closed internally or close the border between Georgia and South Carolina because the President does not have that power.
Congress could pass a law allowing the President to do so in response to health emergencies or other national disasters (a delegation of its powers under the Commerce Clause), but no such law currently exists.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> but no such law currently exists. It could effectively be done under the existing broad quarantine provisions of the Public Health Service Act, especially if it didn't expressly order a lockdown but instead ordered that anyone engaging in the kind of activities that would normally be prohibited in a lockdown was subject to summary detention for examination until shown not to be infectious.
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- gamblor956 7y agoThe PHSA only grants the power to quarantine someone who is infected, or reasonably believed to be infected. The PHSA does not grant the Executive the power to issue a broad quarantine that could cover non-infected individuals. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/264 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/264