{"id":8650,"date":"2020-07-01T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=8650"},"modified":"2020-12-27T13:28:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T18:28:56","slug":"statement-on-pa-supreme-court-decision-in-wolf-v-scarnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=8650","title":{"rendered":"Statement on PA Supreme Court Decision in Wolf v. Scarnati"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krc-pbpc.org\/research_publication\/statement-on-pa-supreme-court-decision-in-wolf-v-scarnati\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Originally published by KRC-PBPC here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/COVIDbluewhite.jpeg?resize=300%2C168&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/COVIDbluewhite.jpeg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/COVIDbluewhite.jpeg?resize=250%2C140&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/COVIDbluewhite.jpeg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All Pennsylvanians should be gratified by PA Supreme Court\u2019s ruling today that the General Assembly\u2019s attempt to unilaterally end Governor Wolf\u2019s emergency orders is unconstitutional. The Court made its decision, as it should have, on the basis of the plain words of the Constitution which states that a concurrent resolution by the two houses of the General Assembly must be presented to the Governor for his approval or veto. But, as we pointed out in our\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.krc-pbpc.org\/research_publication\/legal-brief-by-pa-budget-and-policy-center-and-keystone-research-center-supports-gov-wolf-in-stay-at-home-order-court-case\/?link_id=1&amp;can_id=c4443e03a0488eafbcb418291a9f6b46&amp;source=email-pbpc-statement-on-racism-in-america-and-the-current-moment-2&amp;email_referrer=&amp;email_subject=pbpc-statement-on-pa-supreme-court-decision-in-wolf-v-scarnati\" target=\"_blank\">amicus curiae<\/a>\u00a0brief to the Court, and as recent evidence in many other states shows, the consequences of ending the governor\u2019s orders prematurely would have been devastating to the health and economic well-being of us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published by KRC-PBPC here. All Pennsylvanians should be gratified by PA Supreme Court\u2019s ruling today that the General Assembly\u2019s attempt to unilaterally end Governor Wolf\u2019s emergency orders is unconstitutional. The Court made its decision, as it should have, on the basis of the plain words of the Constitution which states that a concurrent resolution by the two houses of the General Assembly must be presented to the Governor for his approval or veto. But, as we pointed out in our\u00a0amicus curiae\u00a0brief to the Court, and as recent evidence in many other states shows, the consequences of ending the governor\u2019s orders prematurely would have been devastating to the health and economic well-being of us all. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=8650\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[136,195,216,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitutional-law-and-civil-liberties","category-covid-19","category-pa-constitutional-law","category-pennsylvania"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-2fw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8652,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650\/revisions\/8652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}