News notes from around the interweb:
- San Francisco is paying $30,000 a day for empty hotel rooms sometimes you need excess capacity and there’s waste when you’re in a rush.
- Oops.
The Federal Aviation Administration proposed fining Chicago’s Department of Aviation $1,291,621 over allegations that city employees violated aircraft rescue and firefighting regulations, including by falsifying training logs.
- After Australia eases travel restrictions to permit people to visit New Zealand they might next extend to parts of Asia
- Please do not believe that cruise bookings are actually up 600%, this is a claim from one agency (that wants to sell cruises), sourced to TMZ, and the claim is it’s up 600 from a very very very low base, though up 200% compared to last year when perhaps the agency didn’t much focus on cruises..?
- Hilton’s Points Unlimited promo extended through September 7
- People are being arrested in Hawaii for tourism, strictly speaking for leaving their hotel rooms within 14 days of arrival in the islands. Grocery shopping is not even permitted.
A newlywed California couple left their Waikiki hotel room repeatedly, despite being warned by hotel staff, and were arrested. Others have been arrested at a hotel pool, loading groceries into a vehicle outside a Costco and bringing take-out food back to a hotel room.
- British Airways union begs the airline to reverse layoff decisions. (HT: Anne-Marie)
On the Hawaii front, I wish i was important enough that rules didn’t apply to me. sadly, I’m just a normal shmo so I have to follow rules whether I like them or not.
Pardon me for not feeling a bit of sympathy/empathy for visitors to Hawaii who flaunt visitation rules that are well-known, well-publicized and reiterated at every turn upon arrival. But great job VFTW for giving them the fame they crave so deeply.
Throw them in jail; they choose to ignore their responsibilities to others. Zero sympathy for them, merely contempt.
Traveling unmolested in the United States is a constitutional right and being arrested for traveling to a us state is illegal…if you are saying that a stay at home order overrides the constitution then I should be able to own people…cant pick and choose what parts of the constitution you recognize…whiny coronials
It will be interesting to see if those quarantine laws hold up in court. The courts have historically affirmed the ability of governments to quarantine those who HAVE a contagious disease, but it is much bigger ask to have the power to quarantine those who not only haven’t tested positive for the disease, but who haven’t even credibly been exposed.
Hawaii should pull a Mayor Daley ala Migs Field and bulldoze the runway. That way Cody and his constitutional racist loving TrumpTards can row their love boats over to Hawaii instead. Mahalo!
I was making a point to the absurdity of when people pick and choose what constitutional rights they wanna adhere to or not…also didn’t vote for trump
A better story – rising Covid cases in Texas even as they maintain a quarantine for travelers coming from declining Covid states
Curious if all the “Constitutionalists” will also attack Texas too
It will take awhile for lawsuits to be filed and they wind their way through the courts. Many of the quarantine laws are overreach, but its the folks that have been directly impacted (such as the couple in Hawaii) that have no symptoms nor exposure and have been detained will get legal relief. Actions such as mandatory testing every day for a set number of days would show that the actions are not arbitrary and without merit.
Fortunately, adherence to the Constitution cannot be waived and while individual states have autonomy and the ability to set laws, they cannot negate nor reduce those afforded by our Constitution.
If you don’t want to obey Hawaii’s coronavirus rules, don’t go to Hawaii until the pandemic is over. It’s really that simple.
That’s the point right there Charlie…thier rules /law is unconstitutional therefore should not be acknowledged.
The Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled on the ability of states to implement any temporary restrictions they want, even things that ostensibly would be violations of other clauses in the Constitution, like the Taking Clause of the 5th Amendment. Remember, the US is a Federation of States, and explicitly, “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the States respectively”.
There is no way that even this Supreme Court would rule that any of the Stay at Home orders or travel restrictions were unconstitutional. If Hawaii tried to pass a law permanently barring travel from the mainland, that would be something different. But all these temporary measures to mitigate the spread of a disease and mitigate the economic impact of the shutdown are clearly the power of the States to do.
If you get arrested at the pool do they let you change or do they throw you in a cell just wearing your wet swimsuit?
Hats off to Hawaii. That’s the way you fulfill your duties to provide safety to your Citizens protected by the 14th Amendment! Bravo.