States Must Prevent the Return of Emergency-Power Tyranny

No person should have as much power as some governors did during the pandemic, for as long as they had it, without adequate checks and balances.

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A runner jogs past a public-health sign on the beach in Oceanside, Calif., October 12, 2020.

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Most Americans are likely pleased that when they turn on their televisions, no longer are there talking heads and public-health figures breathlessly discussing Covid-19 case counts and deaths. Broadly, the media as a whole are no longer incessantly reporting on the topic, and nationally, the federal public-health emergency declared for the Covid-19 pandemic terminates on May 11.

While the old signs of the pandemic have virtually vanished, Americans won’t forget what their governments did to them.

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Nick Murray

Nick Murray is the director of policy at the Maine Policy Institute, a free-market think tank headquartered in Portland, Maine, that works to expand individual liberty and economic freedom in Maine.

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