By executive order the people of Chattanooga and other cities across Tennessee have effectively lost their legal protections under the constitution. By David Tulis / NoogaRadio 92.7 FM Executive orders by Gov. Bill Lee declaring a statewide lockdown exceed his grant of authority under emergency powers, it appears, but also contradict clear statutes that grant police powers during a public emergency. Those laws are the quarantine law, which empowers state action against the recalcitrant and uncooperative sick, and the tuberculosis statute, which outlines legal protocol for the establishing of a person’s illness with that disease. That law is Tenn. Code … Continue reading Constitution bars martial law, especially when officials ignore controlling statute