Florida Gouverneur DeSantis the Man without Mask sues CDC to get cruises restarted - Experts call it a ‘political stunt’
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The lawsuit was filed April 8th in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida in Tampa against the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the agencies’ directors. It asks the court to declare the conditional sail order unlawful.
A "Political stunt" calls it the Tampa Bay Times.
No Legal Basis for a State to Sue the Federal Government Managing An International Plague
You do not have to be a lawyer steeped in constitutional law to understand that Governor DeSantis’ lawsuit filed yesterday on behalf of the State of Florida against the U.S. federal government and the Centers for Disease Control may lack a legal basis.
The Miami Herald lightly touched upon the absence of legal basis of the ill-conceived litigation in its article titled DeSantis Sues CDC to Get Cruises restarted. Experts Call It a ‘Political Stunt.’ The Miami Herald wrote:
“I think it’s got negligible viability approaching zero,” said Larry Gostin, professor of global health law at Georgetown University and director of the World Health Organization’s center on global health law. “Under no circumstance could I see a judge striking down a regulation that applies to cruise ships and the safety of its passengers because its passengers are going to be introducing infectious diseases back into the U.S. if they get infected on the ship. The U.S. has a very strong interest and power to stop that.”
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