{"id":1967,"date":"2020-06-30T12:39:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T12:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2020-06-30T12:40:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T12:40:59","slug":"a-napalitano-no-fed-authority-to-mandate-masking-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/30\/a-napalitano-no-fed-authority-to-mandate-masking-correct\/","title":{"rendered":"A Napalitano; no blanket Fed \/state authority to mandate masking. Correct."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Fox News judicial analyst discussed the issue during the network\u2019s \u201cAmerica\u2019s Newsroom\u201d program. He said that the 10th Amendment to the Constitution reserves matters of public health and safety to the states, but even they lack the authority to mandate masks anywhere but state property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe federal government certainly can\u2019t do it because the federal government is not charged with public health or public safety,\u201d Napolitano told Fox News\u2019 Melissa Francis. \u201cThat is an area that is reserved by the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution for the states.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd that brings us to whether the states have the authority to do that, and the answer again is no,\u201d said the judge. \u201cIf a person is known to be contagious, the state could require that person to be quarantined or wear a mask,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/29\/judge-andrew-napolitano-governments-authority-mandate-masks-wearing-fox-news\/\">https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/29\/judge-andrew-napolitano-governments-authority-mandate-masks-wearing-fox-news\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fox News judicial analyst discussed the issue during the network\u2019s \u201cAmerica\u2019s Newsroom\u201d program. He said that the 10th Amendment to the Constitution reserves matters of public health and safety to the states, but even they lack the authority to mandate masks anywhere but state property. \u201cThe federal government certainly can\u2019t do it because the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}