{"id":76556,"date":"2021-01-29T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76556"},"modified":"2021-01-24T11:10:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T17:10:57","slug":"guardrails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76556","title":{"rendered":"Guardrails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Republican legislators are trying to change the Governor’s emergency powers<\/a>. I applaud that effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An “emergency” is an unforeseen combination of events requiring immediate action. A tornado, a blizzard, a flood, even a disease outbreak, can all be emergencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But for how long? At what point is “immediate” action no longer required, and “deliberate” action should replace it? At what point should the Governor return power to the people’s elected representatives to make decisions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presently, the law says his power continues until a majority of both houses revokes it. That’s backwards. It should end unless a majority of both houses extends it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Doakes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The provision, if it was given much thought at all, was (I suspect) written with the assumption that all future goverors would operate from a basis of integrity and concern, mutually held with a statesmanlike legislature, for the balancing of order and liberty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Events have shown that to be a poor assumption. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Events have also shown us that the Second Amendment movement got it right in 2015 when they pushed through limitations on the Governor’s emergency powers in re confiscating guns and curbing gun rights under a “state of emergency”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need to do that with the rest of state law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assuming the opposition can ever prevail. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican legislators are trying to change the Governor’s emergency powers. I applaud that effort. An “emergency” is an unforeseen combination of events requiring immediate action. A tornado, a blizzard, a flood, even a disease outbreak, can all be emergencies. But for how long? At what point is “immediate” action no longer required, and “deliberate” action […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76565,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76556\/revisions\/76565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}