A Comeuppance for Pennsylvania’s Health Bureaucrats
A Comeuppance for Pennsylvania’s Health Bureaucrats
by Chase Englund at Brownstone Institute
Pennsylvanians have already seen what expansive public-health authority can look like.
During the Covid era, schools were closed, businesses were divided into “essential” and “nonessential,” and major decisions affecting ordinary families were made through administrative orders with limited public input. In December 2021, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the state’s school masking order, holding that the Department of Health had exceeded the authority granted to it under existing law.
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