Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb is asking the Indiana Supreme Court to review a lower court ruling that upheld limits on the governor’s emergency powers. The appeal comes as President Joe Biden, the U.S. Congress, governors, state legislatures, mayors, and local lawmakers across the United States battle over their proper respective roles in dealing with the CCP virus that causes the disease COVID-19. State governors across the country have come under particularly heavy political fire for, in the views of their critics, authoritarianism by seizing extraordinary emergency powers, particularly related to business- and lifestyle-related pandemic regulations, and failing to be accountable. In the nearby states of Wisconsin and Michigan, Democratic governors have been accused of overreach and some of their emergency powers have been taken away. Indiana’s Republican governor is suing his fellow Republicans, State Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray and State House Speaker Todd Huston, over a statute known as …
With COVID Restrictions Challenged, Indiana Governor Asks State Supreme Court to Strike Down Law Empowering Legislature
October 26, 2021
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