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Legal historian John Fabian Witt discusses new book on epidemics and law
“If the past is a guide, how our law responds to contagion now and in the future will help decide the course of our democracy.” John Fabian Witt,
American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
At this writing, the COVID-19 pandemic has killed more than 570,000 Americans and infected about 32 million. The United States has the highest death toll in the world, and the death rates here betray stunning inequities for people of color, among other vulnerable and disadvantaged communities.
The experience of this novel pandemic in the past year has fueled questions about the role of the federal and state governments in addressing epidemics; the importance of public health versus individual freedoms; the inequities in access to health care and more.
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Blogs > Robin Lindley > Law, Politics, Public Health and Deadly Epidemics: A Conversation with John Fabian Witt on “American Contagions”
Apr 16, 2021
Law, Politics, Public Health and Deadly Epidemics: A Conversation with John Fabian Witt on “American Contagions”
If the past is a guide, how our law responds to contagion now and in the future will help decide the course of our democracy. John Fabian Witt,
American Contagions.
At this writing, the deadly COVID-19 pandemic has killed a shocking 560,000 Americans and infected about 32 million Americans The United States remains the nation with the highest death toll in the world, and the death rates here betray stunning inequities for people color among other vulnerable and disadvantaged communities.
Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment
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It is the thesis of this monumentally argued book that the United States Supreme Court - largely through abuses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, has embarked on a continuing revision of the Constitution, under the guise of interpretation.
Consequently, the Court has subverted America s democratic institutions and wreaked havoc upon Americans social and political lives.
One of the first constitutional scholars to question the rise of judicial activism in modern times, Raoul Berger points out that the Supreme Court is not empowered to rewrite the Constitution, that in its transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment it has demonstrably done so. Thereby the Justices, who are virtually unaccountable, irremovable, and irreversible, have taken over from the people control of their own destiny, an awesome exercise of power.
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Einat Wilf
Einat Wilf, author and former member of Knesset:
As a mother of three children still in their first school years, who previously assumed she was tethered to their school schedules for the next decade of their lives, COVID-19 has liberated me from any sense of commitment to their school programs or schedules. Through the lockdowns, I have learned both that I can home-school my children and that I can enjoy it. I now consider their schools an option to be exercised when convenient. I do not plan to assume the full burden of home schooling, but confident in my newfound home-schooling skill, I can now imagine taking my children out of school to travel, whenever we want.