A Maricopa County judge struck down a ban on public schools imposing face mask mandates and a host of other policy changes that lawmakers inserted into the state budget, and with them, may have forced a fundamental change in the way the legislature does business when it passes its annual budget each year.
The ruling comes two days before the mask mandate prohibition and various other changes to state law were to go into effect.
Along with the ban on face mask mandates, the ruling strikes down several other laws pertaining to COVID-19 mitigation measures and the operation of public schools. That includes laws banning “critical race theory” in K-12 schools, barring colleges and universities from requiring COVID-19 vaccinations or testing of students, prohibiting K-12 schools from requiring students to receive vaccines that have received emergency authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and barring cities and counties from requiring “vaccine passports.”
And Superior Court Judge Katherine Cooper struck down an entire budget bill that included wide-ranging measures on election integrity laws and pandemic-related business regulations.
The lawsuit, filed by a coalition of left-leaning advocacy groups and Democratic political figures, argued that several budget bills passed by the legislature in the waning days of the 2021 session violated a provision of the Arizona Constitution known as the single-subject rule. That provision mandates that bills passed by the legislature embrace “one general subject,” and that that subject be clear in the title of the bill.
The laws that Cooper struck down were all included in budget reconciliation bills, which are pieces of legislation, usually covering broad subjects such as K-12 education, health, public safety and revenue, that implement the annual state budget. Those bills, often known by the shorthand BRBs, have long been used as a vehicle by lawmakers to include various policies in the budget each year.
Cooper ruled that the face mask ban and several other COVID-related measures, along with the critical race theory ban, that were in the K-12, higher education and health violated the provision of the single-subject rule that prohibits misleading titles on legislation.
And as for the “budget procedures” legislation that included the election, vaccine passport and other disputed laws, Cooper wrote that the entire bill is null and void.
The state’s rationale for including those laws in the budget bills would redefine the term “single subject” to mean essentially anything it wanted, Cooper wrote.
“Going forward, the Legislature could add any policy or regulatory provision to a BRB, regardless of whether the measure was necessary to implement the budget, without notice to the public. The State’s idea of ‘subject’ is not and cannot be the law,” she said.
It’s unclear whether the state will appeal the ruling before new laws go into effect on Sept. 29. An attorney representing the state could not immediately be reached for comment.
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The darn State constitution is a leftist impediment to the true one party dictatorship. After all the founding fathers fought at Yorktown against mask, COVID, and race curriculum mandates.
Great message David. I can not base any faith in the religion of government. Politicians would do well to return to church and stop relying on themselves to do what is right. They have no basis for right or wrong when power, control and money is what they seek.
Many of them feel power as they try to appeal for help with the poor. But as history has shown, those they claimed to help fell deeper into poverty.
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”-Matthew 6:33
Time to straighten our paths.
If we trust the science, we must trust the scientists that create the science for us to believe in.
So let’s listen to the scientists:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/YIWuKxwdpICQ/
Shot in the dark, You say listen to the scientists. I do.
New England Journal of Medicine, John Hopkins, Mayo Clinic etc.
You give a link to a conspiracy site with no immunology
or virology scientists. Try the above mentioned, real scientists.
What did the “scientists” say about weed spray thirty years ago? Lawyers have cashed in on claims of future side effects including cancer and death. How about the use of long haired fiber asbestos in use for insulation.
What do they know about this vaccine?
As a nation, we used to be guided in our laws by a concept called “Natural Law”, the idea that, even if there were no government, society would naturally develop norms by which it would conform behavior.
So, what is the natural law of masks? When I go into grocery stores wearing my N95 masks, how many other people are wearing masks?
About 20% of Frys grocery store customers are wearing masks. Not even close to the 70% that natural law might be guided by.
When I go into my elementary school wearing my N95 mask religously, where I volunteer most days of the week, what percentage of the students are wearing masks?
Almost zero. Less than 10%.
The parents don’t even want the students to quarantine, just want them to power through.
In 2018 and 2019, 843 and 777 children died. So far, 39 children have died, with Covid, in the Covid era, an 18 month period. Its hard to know what to make of that without an indepth analysis.
Normally, over 18 months, we would have expected about 1200 child deaths in that time. Does that data mean that 39 of those 1,200 children died “with” Covid or does it mean that 39 of those children died “from” Covid. We don’t know.
But, we do know that 66 fewer children died in 2019 than in 2018. That’s a big number. In another two months, we are going to see how many children died in 2020 when DHS releases their next Child Fatality Review.
I think its going to be a shocking number. We are about to find out that all the policies pushed by Democrat elites killed a lot more kids than Covid did.
In the meantime, celebrate your pyrrhic court victory. Those school districts that make masks mandatory, those school districts that adopt Critical Race Theory, are about to get a lesson in natural law. They are about to lose another 50,000 students, another $450 million in revenue.
It seems odd to me that Dr fauci is at the head of this scientific train wreck, and yet nobody has mentioned his name. Wasn’t he caught lying about the fact that he funded gain of research experiments that appear to have spread CV 19.
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