Reason Magazine
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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper declared "a state of emergency for public education" because state lawmakers propose "extreme legislation" He objected to the legislature's plan to expand a "private school voucher scheme" Tuccille: It's hard to see how extending plans for picking schools to other families constitute an "emergency" It's an emergency when the public disagrees with schools that suit their needs and preferences.
David Rothkopf: Supreme Court is concerned with proliferation of emergency decrees to bypass debate, exercise power.
He says it's a bad idea to marginalize dissent with authoritarian stunts, end-run healthy debate by invoking a sense of crisis.
But debate is healthy, he says, and it's not an emergency; losing to opponents of lousy policy isn't an emergency.
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