Emergency Powers and COVID-19 with William Banks

The black letter law and articles in this episode are: William Banks and Stephen Dycus, "Martial Law Would Sweep the Country Into a Great Legal Unknown" The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/martial-law-would-sweep-country-great-legal-unknown/608773/ The Stafford Act https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1582133514823-be4368438bd042e3b60f5cec6b377d17/Stafford_June_2019_508.pdf Public Health Services Act (42 USC Section 201 et seq) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2010-title42/pdf/USCODE-2010-title42-chap6A-subchapI.pdf Secretary Azar declared an emergency on January 31, 2020 https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/01/31/secretary-azar-declares-public-health-emergency-us-2019-novel-coronavirus.html Defense Production Act (50 USC Section 2061 et seq) https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/20130726-1650-20490-5258/final__defense_production_act_091030.pdf President Trump announced invocation of Defense Production Act https://www.c-span.org/video/?470599-1/president-trump-coronavirus-task-force-hold-briefing-white-house Insurrection Act (10 USC Section 251 et seq) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/subtitle-A/part-I/chapter-13 William Banks, Stephen Dycus “Soldiers on the Home Front: The Domestic Role of the American Military” https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674736740 Center for Disease Control and Prevention https://www.cdc.gov/ U.S. Department of Health and Human Services https://www.hhs.gov/ The history of quarantine https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/historyquarantine.html Implementation of the Defense Production Act by President Truman https://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-4-4-b-seizure-truman-takes-the-steel-mills.html Professor William Banks is Chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security Advisory Committee and an Emeritus Professor at the Syracuse University College of Law http://law.syr.edu/profile/william-banks1