An End to Michigan’s Endless Emergency - WSJ

“Almost certainly,” Justice Markman wrote for the majority, “no individual in the history of this state has ever been vested with as much concentrated and standardless power to regulate the lives of our people, free of the inconvenience of having to act in accord with other accountable branches of government.”

It’s great that the Courts are starting to deliver relief on these extended “emergencies,” but it’s remarkable how long they were permitted to endure totally unchecked.

The real solution in emergencies is for all constitutiencies to work together. Government first encourages and gains the buy in of the public. Then the Executive and Legislative branches work together on solutions as needed within the legal framework of a jurisdiction.

What happened in this case is everyone panicked over the course of a single week. They ran right past asking the public to pitch in and instead opted for unending emergencies and odious infringements on civil liberty.