All articles tagged with #emergency orders
The Supreme Court has significantly empowered Donald Trump over the past nine months through emergency orders, allowing him to reduce federal agencies, dismiss agency heads, and exercise congressional powers.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh defended the Supreme Court's handling of an increased number of emergency appeals, attributing it to presidents relying more on executive orders amid congressional gridlock, and highlighted efforts to improve transparency and process in decision-making.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh emphasized caution in issuing detailed opinions on emergency applications to avoid premature judgments, highlighting the court's varied approaches and the importance of transparency, while also noting the influence of political and public opinion on judicial decisions.
Two Republican lawmakers in New Mexico have filed a resolution to impeach Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham over her emergency public health orders that suspended the right to carry firearms in certain public places. The lawmakers accuse the governor of violating the state and federal constitutions, prompting a response from Lujan Grisham's spokesperson who criticized the move as a political stunt. The governor invoked the emergency orders in response to gun violence and has proposed a gun safety package, including a ban on assault weapons and raising the legal purchase age for all guns to 21.
New York City has filed a lawsuit against over 30 upstate localities that issued emergency orders aimed at barring the city from housing migrants in hotels. The city’s suit names Rockland and Orange counties, in addition to 31 other counties and one town, that recently issued migrant-related emergency orders after New York Mayor Eric Adams announced his administration will begin busing migrants to private hotels in their areas. The suit also requests that the court deem the EOs “null and void” and invalidate them “in excess of authority, affected by an error of law, arbitrary and capricious, and an abuse of discretion.”
New York City has sued over 30 municipalities and local leaders in upstate New York, alleging that their emergency orders obstruct the city's efforts to relocate migrants upstate "in a manner that is explicitly permitted by law and required by a statewide emergency." The suit asks the state Supreme Court to invalidate the emergency orders filed by the counties under the grounds that they are unconstitutional. The battle between the city and some upstate leaders started last month when Rockland County declared a state of emergency after its leaders said they discovered New York City's plan to bus migrants to a hotel in the county.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conservative Supreme Court justice, criticized emergency measures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic as "perhaps the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country." He pointed to orders closing schools, restricting church services, mandating vaccines, and prohibiting evictions. Gorsuch's criticism was aimed at local, state, and federal officials, including his colleagues. He acknowledged that emergency orders are sometimes necessary, but warned that they can generate other problems.