Conservative justices express skepticism about Palm’s authority in hearing on stay-at-home order lawsuit
Justice Rebecca Bradley suggested the DHS secretary’s stay-at-home order was a form of “tyranny” and argued the Legislature never intended to grant an unelected bureaucrat such expansive powers. During oral arguments Tuesday in a GOP lawsuit seeking to prevent enforcement of the order, Bradley also peppered Assistant Attorney General Colin Roth on what limits exist to Andrea Palm’s powers. She pressed him on whether Palm could order people rounded up and put into internment camps much like Japanese-Americans were during World War II. Roth countered the state Legislature granted the Health Services secretary such expansive powers because lawmakers couldn’t anticipate