NY Take Action: Court strikes Covid Concentration Camp rule. Will Hochul Appeal? Will Attorney General James file?
NY Take Action: Court strikes Covid Concentration Camp rule.
Will Hochul Appeal? Will Attorney General James file?
Last Friday New York Supreme Court Judge Ronald Ploetz struck down Governor Kathy Hochul’s “Covid Concentration Camp” regulation that gave her and the health department entirely new powers to arrest and detain indefinitely anybody suspected of having been exposed to a communicable disease.
The question now is will Governor Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James appeal the decision? It should be embarrassing enough for Hochul that she pushed this proposal forward. Hopefully, James will have enough sense to just let this one fade into the distance.
Please call and comment on the social media of the Governor and Attorney General’s offices and let them know politely that you do not want them to appeal the decision. Remember, these are the same people who thought it was a good idea to put people infected with Covid into nursing homes. So anything is possible.
And please use click HERE to send email messages to Hochul and James expressing your opposition to appealing Judge Ploetz’s correct decision.
Governor Kathy Hochul (518) 474-8390, (212) 681-4580, Hochul only takes voice mail. Call anyway.
Fax (518) 474-1513
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/govkathyhochul, https://www.facebook.com/KathyHochul
Twitter: @GovKathyHochul, @KathyHochul
Attorney General Letitia James, (800) 771-7755
Twitter: @TishJames, @NewYorkStateAG
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/newyorkstateag, https://www.facebook.com/LetitiaJamesforNY
New York has longstanding quarantine laws that require health department officials to prove to a judge that a person is infected, not suspected of exposure, and show that ordinary at-home quarantine procedures will be insufficient. Accused people could be represented by an attorney. And if a person is quarantined it could only be for the length of time the person is infectious.
Hochul was sued by Attorney Bobbie Ann Cox of Uniting NYS and a group of Republican legislators. Hochul’s rules dispensed with all those procedures required by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Judge Ploetz of Cattauragus County found the Governor had usurped the sole authority of the legislature to make laws. The Governor also dispensed with common sense as well. The regulation is so boroad that in a time of Covid anybody could be detained and locked up. And if there is no need for a person to be infected to be detained, there is no clear rule on how long people could be imprisoned.
They tried for years to pass a law to get these extraordinary powers, but it went nowhere, and was withdrawn last December. So Hochul decided to give the powers to herself via a regulation, which is a process completely under the Governor’s control.
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