<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail-asset-masthead" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:20px 0px 40px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(236,239,241)"><h1 class="gmail-headline" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:42px;margin:0px 100px 0px 0px;font-family:inherit;line-height:1.1;color:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">AG's analysis: HCR 1 illegal, wouldn't stand up in court</span></h1><div class="gmail-meta" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:20px;margin-right:100px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box"><ul class="gmail-list-inline" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;padding-left:0px;list-style:none"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px"><span id="gmail-author-popup-116defae-eea4-11e9-a634-7f82274abbaa-asset-f2030699-2835-50f1-bb78-5059a3e60310" class="gmail-tnt-byline gmail-asset-byline" rel="popover" title="" style="box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word"><a href="https://www.idahopress.com/users/profile/brussell" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration-line:none">Posted by Betsy</a></span></li> <li class="gmail-hidden-print" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px">1 hr ago</li> <li class="gmail-hidden-print" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;padding-right:5px;padding-left:5px"><a href="https://www.idahopress.com/eyeonboise/ags-analysis-hcr-1-illegal-wouldnt-stand-up-in-court/article_f2030699-2835-50f1-bb78-5059a3e60310.html#comments" class="gmail-cm" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration-line:none"></a></li></ul></span></div><br></div><div class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(236,239,241)"><div class="gmail-main-content gmail-col-md-12" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-right:15px;padding-left:15px;float:left;width:1170px"><div class="gmail-main-content-wrap" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-tncms-region-article_top" class="gmail-tncms-region gmail-hidden-print" style="box-sizing:border-box"></div><div id="gmail-tncms-region-article_top_content" class="gmail-tncms-region gmail-hidden-print" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-tncms-block-1721160" class="gmail-tncms-block" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div align="center" style="box-sizing:border-box"></div></div></div><div id="gmail-asset-content" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-col-lg-8 gmail-col-md-12 gmail-col-sm-8 gmail-col-lg-push-4 gmail-col-md-push-0 gmail-col-sm-push-4" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;padding-right:15px;padding-left:15px;float:left;width:780px"><div class="gmail-asset-body" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-share-container gmail-content-above" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-bottom:20px"><ul class="gmail-social-share-links gmail-hidden-print gmail-list-inline gmail-icon" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding-left:0px;list-style:none;text-align:initial"><span style="font-size:15px">In response to a request from Senate President Pro-Tem Brent Hill, the Idaho Attorney General's office has completed an analysis of the legality of HCR 1, the concurrent resolution the House passed this morning aimed at ending the current state of emergency in Idaho due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and concluded that the measure "would carry no legal effect and likely be the subject of a successful legal challenge to its validity."</span><br></ul></div><div class="gmail-asset-content gmail-subscriber-premium" style="box-sizing:border-box"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;font-size:15px;line-height:24px">That's because the Idaho Constitution, in Article IV, Section 9, permits only the governor to call a special session of the Legislature and to determine the subject matter for the session; special sessions have no power to legislate on any other subjects. </p><div class="gmail-tnt-ads-container gmail-text-center" style="box-sizing:border-box;min-height:1px;text-align:center"><div id="gmail-tnt-smart-ad-1" class="gmail-tnt-ads gmail-dfp-smart-ad" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px auto 40px;min-height:90px"><div id="gmail-google_ads_iframe_/94837440/nampa/ipt/eyeonboise_5__container__" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;margin:0px auto;border:0pt none;width:728px;height:90px"></div><span style="font-size:15px">Gov. Brad Little issued his proclamation on Aug. 19, enumerating the subjects and attaching three proposed bills, two on election rules for November and one on civil liability. "No reference is made to calling the Legislature into session to address whether the declaration of emergency itself should continue," Assistant Chief Deputy Attorney General Brian Kane wrote in the analysis, which I obtained through a public records request.</span></div></div><div id="gmail-tncms-region-article_instory_top" class="gmail-tncms-region gmail-hidden-print" style="box-sizing:border-box"></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;font-size:15px;line-height:24px">Rep. Steven Harris, R-Meridian, based HCR 1 on an existing law, Idaho Code 46-1008, that says, "The legislature by concurrent resolution may terminate a state of disaster emergency at any time." But Kane found that the Constitution specifies when the Legislature may be in session. "Thus, this provision is likely only operable when the Legislature is in its regular session, or when the Governor has identified an emergency proclamation as the subject of an extra session."</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;font-size:15px;line-height:24px">Kane noted, "If the state Constitution and a statute conflict, the state constitutional provision prevails."</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;font-size:15px;line-height:24px">If the House and Senate both were to pass HCR 1, Kane wrote, "It will likely be the subject of a successful legal challenge."</p><div id="gmail-tncms-region-article_instory_middle" class="gmail-tncms-region gmail-hidden-print" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div id="gmail-tncms-block-1721694" class="gmail-tncms-block" style="box-sizing:border-box"><div class="gmail-signup-wrapper" style="box-sizing:border-box;display:flex"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;color:white;font-weight:bold;padding-left:12px;background-color:rgb(52,52,52)"><div class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:12px"><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:inherit;line-height:1.1;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:18px;padding-left:12px"><br></h4></div></div></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;font-size:15px;line-height:24px">The Senate hasn't taken any action as yet, since the House passed the measure. Senate Republicans were in caucus this morning, and went back into another closed-door caucus meeting at 3 p.m.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;font-size:15px;line-height:24px">Senate Democrats caucused earlier, said Minority Leader Michelle Stennett, D-Ketchum. Stennett, when asked about HCR 1, said, "I usually do my work based on three things: Is it constitutional, is it enforceable, and how does it improve the lives of the Idahoans we represent? And I personally think it doesn't meet the first criteria."</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;font-size:15px;line-height:24px">When the Legislature passes unconstitutional legislation, she said, "In court it will cost taxpayers a lot of money. It's not legal." <br></p></div><div class="gmail-asset-tagline gmail-text-muted" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(170,170,170);padding-top:20px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 18px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;line-height:24px"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">Betsy Z. Russell is the Boise bureau chief and state capitol reporter for the Idaho Press and Adams Publishing Group. 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size="2">Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA</font></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 3:13 PM Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Point well made and taken, Ken.<div><br></div><div>At a bare minimum we should stay with face masks and distance.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.TomandRodna.com/MoscowCares</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 25, 2020, at 2:55 PM, Kenneth Marcy <<a href="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com" target="_blank">kmmos1@frontier.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:42px;margin:0px 100px 0px 0px;font-family:"Titillium Web",sans-serif;font-weight:400;line-height:1.1;color:rgb(12,12,12)"><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Idaho's House of
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<p style="font-family:HelveticaNeue;font-size:19.2px">BOISE,
Idaho - Today lawmakers in Idaho's House voted to advance a
resolution that ends Idaho Governor Brad Little's
Coronavirus Emergency Declaration.</p>
<p style="font-family:HelveticaNeue;font-size:19.2px"><a href="https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2020spcl/legislation/HCR001.pdf" target="_blank">The resolution</a> effectively
lifts all restrictions across the state. Lawmakers voted and
passed the resolution 48-20 amid a special session that the
Governor called to deal with liability laws and mail-in
voting concerns.</p>
<p style="font-family:HelveticaNeue;font-size:19.2px">The
resolution now heads to the Senate and if it passes the
Governor's Emergency declaration, that he put in place back
in March, is over.</p>
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<p>This appears to be news of a dangerous possibility. If the
resolution passes in the Senate, thus ending the emergency
declaration, and if local University students start behaving as if
coronavirus does not exist, e.g., going maskless, meeting in many
and various groups with no attendance recording, and therefore
with no possibility for contact tracing, there appears to be a
strong possibility that COVID-19 cases will increase chaotically,
exponentially, and, of course, deadly.</p>
<p>One is reminded of the Hermione Granger quote in the first Harry
Potter book, Sorcerer's Stone, where she comments to Harry and Ron
after one of their early adventures: "Now, if you two don't mind,
I'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever
idea to get us killed. Or worse, expelled."</p>
<p>The idea of mass expulsions, or chaos forfend, of the closure of
the entire University for some period of time, is not beyond
horrific imagination. (Well, maybe not the imagination of an
economist or a horror novelist. Take your pick.)</p>
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