"Judge Rademaker concluded that neither the governor nor the state health commissioner has the authority to impose the mask mandate and the state legislature would need to approve specific laws to require masks in schools and certain public places."
"Judge Rademaker concluded that neither the governor nor the state health commissioner has the authority to impose the mask mandate and the state legislature would need to approve specific laws to require masks in schools and certain public places."
Once again, this is the fault of the Common Law system which has this very easily hijackable core feature, it's distinguishing feature, called judicial precedent. Sometimes, this is called case law. Civil Law as a legal system is significantly more functional in that it generally doesn't allow some random minor judge to just blow up a piece of legislation on a provincial, regional, or even national level for personal reasons.
Note the nations in red and pink where this shit is consistently a recurring problem
Whats even funnier is the fact that Common Law is only used in a handful of countries, but due to those countries being the most annoying ones worldwide, Common Law sort of occupies an outsized influence over the planet. Pretty much every non-anglo majority nation is using a different system, but somehow we all still have to learn about how the Common law system works.
Edit: I think the only non-anglo country that uses Common Law would be Hong Kong, but their legal system is entirely within a league of its own, and they also randomly have several british judges just hanging around their supreme court. I think the judges are even from the house of lords if I'm not mistaken.
Shockingly about 1/3 of the world population lives under Common Law or hybrid systems that incorporate aspects of Common Law. This shit needs to get gone so badly.
Isn't that almost entirely down to India and America though? And the Indian system is apparently also quite a strange mixture of every kind of legal tradition, due to India's history. I will admit though, while I have tried to read up on different countries and their legal traditions, it's almost too big of a subject for any single person to understand.