Friends,
We all remember the tyranny that was forced upon us during the Covid-19 pandemic. State governors, both Democrat and Republican, shut down our businesses, closed our schools, and punished all who didn’t comply.
The reason most governors were able to do this was because of state laws granting them “emergency powers” in a time of crisis that gave them a broad mandate to enforce Covid restrictions. They abused these powers, keeping them in place far longer than they were intended, and the results were disastrous with all the evidence showing how lockdowns did more harm than good.
Well, what if we told you that interest groups now want to make those “emergency powers” the standard in state law. The supposedly non-partisan Uniform Law Commission (ULC) has proposed model legislation for all 50 states that would do just that.
The ULC is an entity that has been around since 1892 and works to draft model legislation in order to provide clarity to areas of statutory law across jurisdictions. They have now decided that it’s important to give every governor in America the ability to unilaterally declare emergency public health powers whenever they want with no ability to challenge them in court.
State Freedom Caucuses have already been fighting back against this abuse of power. Recently, the Arizona Freedom Caucus passed HCR 2039, a ballot measure that will constitutionally terminate the Governor’s emergency powers during a state of emergency after 30 days, should AZ voters approve it in the 2024 election.
All eleven Freedom Caucuses in our network have vowed in writing to fight against the model legislation from the ULC. We will always oppose further concentrations of power in the executive branch and will never allow politicians to legislate away your rights.
Read their full response to the ULC here.
South Carolina:
The SCFC had a major victory in court this week that ensured CRT would be removed from the Lexington County School District. Last October, the SCFC obtained a five-minute undercover recording of Tarika Sullivan, a professional development specialist for EL Education which contracted with the district, talking about how they plan to get around state laws to teach CRT to children.
The SC Freedom Caucus wasted no time bringing them to court and a settlement was reached which requires the school district to terminate its contract with EL Education. The SCFC will always fight to keep divisive left-wing racial ideology out of the classroom.
Read the full story in Fox News.
Pennsylvania:
Responding to a written request by the PA Freedom Caucus, Penn State University’s flagship hospital recently disclosed that they are prescribing puberty blockers and other gender change procedures to children as young as 5-years-old.
Our caucuses will never stand for that, which is why they successfully whipped their colleagues last week into denying Penn State the two-thirds majority needed to receive funding from the legislature, denying the university $259 million – not just for their hospital but for ALL their funding.
When hospitals are doing irreversible damage to our children, Freedom Caucuses will always fight to stop it.
Read the full story in the Daily Signal.
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Keep fighting,
Andy Roth
President
State Freedom Caucus Network
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