Fri Nov 26, 2021 – 1:15 pm ESTFri Nov 26, 2021 – 1:29 pm EST
JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri (LifeSiteNews) — A county judge in Missouri ruled that local health restrictions imposed under the guise of halting the spread of COVID-19 in the state are illegal and ought to be lifted.
Green called the measures that had been enacted by health bureaucrats in his state part of an “incredible power to coerce … subjects into submission,” and that as a result of his decision, “schools and places of public assemblies should no longer fear arbitrary closure based on the whims of public health bureaucrats.”
He ruled on November 22 that quarantines, business closures and other such orders violate the Missouri Constitution which contains a clause for the separation of powers regarding the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of the state government.
The Missouri Constitution outlines how the different branches of government are required to operate. It reads: “The powers of government shall be divided into three distinct departments — the legislative, executive and judicial — each of which shall be confided to a separate magistracy, and no person, or collection of persons, charged with the exercise of powers properly belonging to one of those departments, shall exercise any
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