“If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.” U.S.
Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland (1862 to 1942) Late last week, the Supreme Court of Michigan — the state’s highest and final court — invalidated the coronavirus pandemic executive orders of Democratic Gov.
Gretchen Whitmer as well as the statute on which she based those orders. The opinion was a sweeping victory for personal liberty in a free society and was exceptionally gratifying for those of us who believe that the U.S.
and state constitutions mean what they say. Whitmer’s orders were the most draconian in the union, and numerous efforts to dislodge them in state courts had failed until three.