Opinion The Federal Government Can Mandate Masks The Washington Post
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Opinion The Federal Government Can Mandate Masks The Washington Post Opinion. the federal government can mandate masks. president elect joe biden in wilmington, del., on tuesday. (demetrius freeman the washington post) president elect joe biden has indicated that. Must the federal government stand by helplessly when red state governors, rather than adopting vaccine and mask mandates, instead block them — harming their own residents in the face of a.
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Opinion We Need A Nationwide Mask Mandate To Avoid Another Shutdown That said, while i oppose a government imposed mask mandate, i do support increased masking, especially as this “tripledemic” is underway and hospital capacity becomes limited. The answer is “yes.”. in a pandemic, governments have the authority to do a lot of things that would otherwise be questionable. think of it like this: the government has the right to ban. The congressional research service’s guidance concludes that the ability of the president or congress to mandate mask wearing is similar the federal government’s limited power to mandate covid 19 vaccines. in general terms, a federal mask mandate can be ordered for people and property directly under the federal government’s jurisdiction. The supreme court has said that, generally, the national government cannot order or, in its words, “commandeer” states to act because of tenth amendment or federalism concerns. it cannot tell.
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