Our watchful friendย Phil Kerpenย brings us news this morning that a Missouri court has crushed down the notion that a state health entity can wield power over a population without a representative body being involved.
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The MO Department of Health and Senior Services cannot shut down a school or quash an assembly โbased on the unfettered opinion of an unelected official.โ
The court goes on to quote Montesquieu and a few other cases.
Most importantly the court lays out precedent now to demolish the roughshod run of local unelected health officials over schools in MO.
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You can read the full opinion here:
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