PITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) – A federal judge has ruled that Gov. Tom Wolf’s shutdown orders were unconstitutional.
Butler, Fayette, Greene and Washington counties — and some Republican officials like Congressman Mike Kelly and state Reps. Marcie Mustello, Daryl Metcalfe and Tim Bonner — filed a lawsuit against Gov. Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine.
They and several businesses said their constitutional rights were violated. The counties were in the “red†phase when they filed the lawsuit in May, saying the restrictions on businesses and gathering limits were unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV, an appointee of President Donald Trump, sided with the plaintiffs. Stickman wrote in his ruling that the Wolf administration’s pandemic policies have been overreaching, arbitrary and violated citizens’ constitutional rights. ...
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