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Why Does NY Governor Kathy Hochul Want Government-Mandated ‘Quarantine’ and ‘Isolation’ Camps Despite This Recent Court Ruling?

by Laura Elizabeth Jenkins and Corinne Cliford

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul supports forced isolation and quarantine regulations, even if someone doesn’t have a confirmed disease.

She challenged last Friday’s State Supreme Court ruling, striking down state regulation 10NYCRR2.13. This regulation granted Department of Health bureaucrats the ability to force indefinite isolation and quarantine upon citizens of any age for any reason.

“Involuntary detention is a severe deprivation of individual liberty, far more egregious than other health and safety measures. Rule 2.13 merely gives lip service to constitutional due process,” Judge Ploetz said.

Concerned with the governor’s overreach and abuse of power, several state lawmakers joined the case as co-complainants, or by filing an amicus brief.  This included state Senator George Borrello, Assemblyman Michael Lawler, and Assemblyman Chris Tague as complainants, and Assemblymen Andrew Goodell, Joseph Giglio, and Assembly Minority Leader William Barclay as amici curiae.

“During the pandemic we saw the absolute breakdown of the separation of powers here in New York State,” said State Senator George Borrello at a grassroots press conference outside the New York State Capitol, below.

“Unfortunately, many of our colleagues were willing accomplices in that, creating a dictatorship in the name of public health and safety.”

The regulation allowed New York State Health Department to coordinate with local health authorities to mandate isolation and quarantine for any individual exposed to communicable diseases, even in locations beyond their own home. This was adopted as an “emergency” in March 2020 and renewed at 90-day intervals by Governors Cuomo and Hochul until Judge Ploetz recently ordered it to stop.

“The attempt by Governor Hochul and her Department of Health to create a procedure by which they could physically remove New York State residents from their homes and quarantine or isolate them from their families, in the name of public health, was an affront to the legislative process and a violation of our state constitution,” said lead attorney Bobbie Anne Flower Cox, Esq. of Cox Lawyers, PLLC. Cox argued this case pro bono, working with advocacy group Uniting NYS.

“It truly shocks the conscience that Governor Hochul proposed this tyrannical regulation in the first place. The fact that she is now planning to appeal the court’s decision is nothing short of shameful. Kathy Hochul is running for governor this November. New Yorkers need to ask themselves if this type of tyrannical behavior is what they want for another 4 years!”

“We’re talking about a proposal that would empower the state to take you, your child, your grandparent, or other members of your family from your home and into quarantine centers with little due process, for as long as the government felt necessary,” said Assemblyman Chris Tague.