Blue States Become Laboratories of Despotism | The American Spectator

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously wrote that an advantage of America s federal system of government is that a state may serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country. In a less celebrated passage of the same opinion, Justice Brandeis acknowledged that this was a mixed blessing with the potential to produce arbitrary, capricious, or unreasonable actions by the states. This is where we find ourselves today. A number of Democratic governors have used the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext to experiment with constitutionally protected civil liberties. Their states have, in effect, become laboratories of despotism.

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