What's Going On In California?
As far as I'm aware, none of the usual suspects among the California civil authorities has made any direct statement about either the November 25 US Supreme Court ruling in Diocese of Brooklyn v Cuomo , or the December 3 ruling in Harvest Rock Church, et al. v Newsom The impression I have is that the LA County Health Department was fully aware of the November 25 ruling and what it telegraphed when it issued a new lockdown order on Nov 27 that prohibited all public and private gatherings "except for faith based services and protests, which are constitutionally protected rights." The worship service exception under the constitution was completely new. On the other hand, both LA Mayor Garcetti and Gov Newsom have been in a new lockdown frenzy. Garcetti issued new stay-at-home orders on November 17 , which he said at the time were to be in effect "for the next two to three weeks." But two to three weekw later, viz, just yesterday, he announced even stricter...