Cuomo Threatens 'Constitutional Challenge' If Trump Orders States To Reopen Too Early [View all]
Source: huff post
04/14/2020 10:43 am ET Updated 1 hour ago
The New York governor said any such order would be “dictatorial,” a day after the president falsely claimed to have “total” authority over states.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Tuesday threatened to sue Donald Trump if the president orders states to lift their stay-at-home orders too early and rushes to reopen the economy before the COVID-19 pandemic safely subsides.
The warning escalated the back-and-forth between state governors and Trump, who falsely declared his “authority is total” in a propagandistic press briefing Monday.
“If he ordered me to reopen in a way that would endanger the public health of the people of my state, I wouldn’t do it,” Cuomo said on CNN. “And we would have a constitutional challenge between the state and the federal government, and that would go into the courts. And that would be the worst possible thing he could do at this moment, would be to act dictatorial and to act in a partisan, divisive way.”........................
Trump responded in a tweet Tuesday, accusing Cuomo of “begging for everything,” and falsely claiming “I got it all done for him, and everyone else.”
“Now he seems to want Independence! That won’t happen!” Trump tweeted.....................................
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