\u201cWhile this court is gravely concerned about the public health consequences of the failure of school districts to implement the guidance of the CDC and the Minnesota Department of Health regarding the use of masks for children, teachers, and staff in K-12 public schools,\u201d the judge wrote in his ruling, \u201cthe judiciary cannot order a co-equal branch of government to exercise its discretionary, political judgment to implement a specific educational policy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In other words\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2026 (Mitch takes a deep breath)\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2026the parents wanted a member of the judicial branch to compel the head of the executive branch do seize all of the authority of the legislative branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sure, we have a public health crisis. We have an even bigger crisis in civics education in this state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A state district judge has thrown out a lawsuit by a group of parents Who were seeking an order requiring the governor to issue a state wide mask mandate and to reinstate the state of emergency. Thankfully, the judge shot the request down: \u201cWhile this court is gravely concerned about the public health consequences of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,308,30,2,51,349,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-entitled-america","category-liberty","category-minnesota-politics","category-liberal-tyranny","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny","category-your-papers-please"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79497","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=79497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79498,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79497\/revisions\/79498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}