Hayride: Last week my office, the Louisiana Attorney General’s office, issued an official Opinion that John Bel Edwards mask mandate was unconstitutional. He then sent me a letter pushing back on this legal guidance. Today I have sent him a final letter in response. The text is below:
July 20, 2020
Hon. John Bel Edwards
Post Office Box 94004
Baton Rouge, LA 70804
Dear Governor Edwards,
I appreciate your deep concern over the official Opinion 20-0068 issued by the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office last week.
Shortly after we – at great cost to our economy and personal freedoms – “flattened the curve,” you surprisingly applauded extraordinarily large groups of people who were gathering in violation of practically every order you had issued to contain the virus – orders which emphasized social distancing.
While you could have applauded people exercising their Constitutional right to the freedom of speech while at the same time chastised attendees for failing to protect people from the spread of the virus, you did only the former and none of the latter.
Now, you seek to further impede the Constitutional freedoms of all Louisianans without any concrete goal or objective based on published metrics.
After seeing your lack of admonition of those violating your guidelines, surely others – especially those in similar age groups – figured that if it was okay to gather in the streets in large numbers without social distancing or other protective measures, surely it was okay to gather in large groups at locations like nightclubs and bars. more here
H/T RWF.
Whew! You go, Jeff!
Does a ‘letter’ have the force of law? I want to see a ruling. Or something that tells me the governor can go get f______.
That’s a lot of words to say ‘Go eff yourself’ but it was a great beat down nonetheless.
Thoughtful, reasoned, articulate, forbearing. Everything a reasonable person would write, so as to get the message across.
I wonder how reasoned or thoughtful the answer will be.
Probably not bad if it has to be in writing, but the vitriol of the leftist mind spews hate where it can.
Excellent letter.
@clyde the AG says in the letter that the mask mandate is unconstitutional, I don’t think any further action is required as that statement should instruct police and local DAs not to enforce it.
Yup, another sternly worded letter. That should take care of things.
Left Coast Dan-
I’m thinking a person in LA should print it out and show it to people when they nag about them not wearing a mask.
Great letter and to the actual point of the double standard being applied to two sections of Americans living beneath the same Constitution.
Governor Ackbar set a trap for all Louisianans and we stepped right into it.
Governor Ackbar needs to be sued to FORCE him to rescind his illegal unconstitutional mandates
MJA
Does 12 mi from la count?