Michigan Supreme Court strikes down Gretchen Whitmer’s coronavirus orders

Michigan’s Supreme Court said Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s coronavirus executive restrictions violated the state’s constitution.

by Anthony Leonardi, WASH EXAMINER

On Friday, the state’s high court ruled in a 4-3 decision that the Democratic governor did not have the power to continue its restrictions under two laws passed in 1976 and 1945, describing the act as an “unlawful delegation of legislative power to the executive branch in violation of the Michigan Constitution.”

“Accordingly, the executive orders issued by the Governor in response to the COVID-19 pandemic now lack any basis under Michigan law,” the ruling reads.

It notes a wide variety of businesses that had to close as a result of the orders, including “restaurants, food courts, cafes, coffeehouses, bars, taverns, brew pubs, breweries, microbreweries, distilleries, wineries, tasting rooms, clubs, hookah bars, cigar bars, vaping lounges, barbershops, hair salons, nail salons, tanning salons, tattoo parlors, schools, churches, theaters, cinemas, libraries, museums, gymnasiums, fitness centers, public swimming pools, recreation centers, indoor sports facilities, indoor exercise facilities, exercise studios, spas, casinos, and racetracks.”

“These policies exhibit a sweeping scope, both with regard to the subjects covered and the power exercised over those subjects. Indeed, they rest on an assertion of power to reorder social life and to limit, if not altogether displace, the livelihoods of residents across the state and throughout wide-ranging industries,” the ruling continues.<
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In a Friday statement, Whitmer criticized the state Supreme Court decision and told the public that her orders still stand for 21 days and retain “the force of law.”

“Today’s Supreme Court ruling, handed down by a narrow majority of Republican justices, is deeply disappointing, and I vehemently disagree with the court’s interpretation of the Michigan Constitution,” she said, later adding, “I want the people of Michigan to know that no matter what happens, I will never stop fighting to keep you and your families safe from this deadly virus.”

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  1. From the same article in primarydoctor.org:

    “In order to answer the question of whether lockdowns “worked” to reduce mortality, it is most helpful to look at all deaths, because total deaths are more precisely enumerated than deaths from any specific cause, due to common multiple co-morbidities.

    I chose not to look at COVID-19 deaths in this study for a number of additional reasons, including the following:

    The very questionable applicability of the manufacturing technique, the reverse-transcriptase / polymerase chain reaction technique, now used throughout the world as a test for presence of an infectious agent; and

    The 80% false positive rate of this “test” in the diagnosis of COVID-19; (6) and

    The arbitrary number of iterations of this “test” that have been selected to produce a positive result; (7) and

    Instructions given to physicians by the CDC to code cases as COVID-19 deaths including presumptively; (8) and

    Controversy regarding higher Medicare reimbursement for COVID-19 patients ($13,000) (9) than for flu patients ($5,000), which may have skewed reported cause of death on death certificates; and

    The possibility that there may be emergency aid incentives and/or political influences in altering the true number of deaths from COVID-19; and

    If COVID-19 is genuinely the deadly pandemic that it is widely thought to be, then total deaths in any jurisdiction would be greater during the period of its peak incidence and closely following weeks.It is not possible to have a deadly pandemic rage through a population without increasing the total number of all-cause deaths over the weeks of its peak incidence.Therefore, if deaths are not significantly increased above previous years for a given region, then there has been no pandemic, nor even an epidemic there.

    Therefore, it is most useful and most accurate to look at total deaths in each state, both in free states, the control group, as well as in locked states, the experimental group.”

    Oh gosh! we are looking at one of the biggest frauds ever perpretated against the human race. prbably the biggest fraud, with the possible exception of the blood libels against the Jews through the centuries.

    If this is the test for CV19 that has been administered to the White House staff and others who have been in contact with Trump, it is probable that 80% or more of them who have tested positive do not have CV-19. This is in effect “black psywar” against Trump and the Republican Senators and Congressmen.

  2. “Proof: Lockdowns Did Not Reduce Deaths
    Preprint, Under Review [https://www.primarydoctor.org/public-health-lockdowns]

    by Colleen Huber, NMD
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    Nature and politics very rarely give us a control group and an experimental group, from which we can gather scientific data. However, in the Covid19 era, there are US states that did not lock down.
    From current CDC data, we can see whether US state lockdowns achieved reduction in deaths.
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    June 16, 2020

    Abstract

    Five weeks of mortality data during the gradual easing of lockdown in most US states during the spring of 2020 show a consistent history among those weeks with regard to the following: States without lockdown, herein “free states,” have had a lower percentage than states with lockdown, herein “locked states,” of total deaths from all causes in these weeks in 2020, compared to the same weeks for each of the states in the years 2017 to 2019.

    Each free state had fewer deaths in comparison to its own record of recent years. Locked states averaged more deaths compared to their own records of recent years.

    This difference holds for both of the following comparisons: free vs locked states that are immediately surrounding free states, as well as free states compared to the average results of all locked states in the US.” This is a very important article on the primarydoctor.org site, published by the Society of Naturopathic Physicians. Using solely statistics issued by the CDC, the author demonstrates that U.S. states that either never locked down, or soon lifted their lockdowns, have all had a lower death rate than the states that have imposed lockdowns on their people. Huber also demonstrates the numerous ways that the CDC has skewed the statistics in order to make the death rate from CV19 look worse than it really is. These methods include outright bribery of doctors and hospitals to lists deaths from flu as CV deaths. Truly shocking.