CNN analyst: You don’t have a constitutional right to interstate travel

[Wingnut]

Dear CNN,

I am begging you with tears in my eyes: Please consider hiring analysts who know what they’re talking about.

The left-wing cable network hosted a panel on Friday scolding the percentage of the country that is still unvaccinated against the coronavirus. CNN medical analyst Leana Wen argued the privileges that come with being a U.S. citizen also come with responsibilities.

If you want your privileges, she explained, then you have to do your part.

“There are privileges associated with being an American,” Wen said, "that if you wish to have these privileges, you need to get vaccinated. Travel, and having the right to travel interstate — it’s not a constitutional right as far as I know to board a plane."

She added, “If you want to stay unvaccinated, that’s your choice. But if you want to travel, you better go get that vaccine.”

Fun fact: Freedom of movement between the states is a bit more than a “privilege.” It’s a fundamental constitutional right.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/cnn-analyst-you-dont-have-a-constitutional-right-to-interstate-travel-you-do

[Smokin Joe]

The Federal Government does not have the authority to impede interstate travel.

[Kamaji]

The fascists are in full court press mode.

[Smokin Joe]

The fascists are in full court press mode.

Yeah, well, relatives ran the Union blockades last time.

[jmyrlefuller]

I.9.6
No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.

I.10.2
No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.

IV.2.1
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.

It sure sounds to me like there is a right to interstate travel.

[Kamaji]

Saenz v. Roe, 526 U.S. 489, 498 (1999) (noting that the right to travel is “firmly embedded” within the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court).

[IsailedawayfromFR]

This is the same Leana Wen who was President of Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortions in this country.

Ironic of her to say what she did while working in a business that really has no constitutional basis whatsoever to do what it is doing to the unborn.

Oh, and since she is a physician she had to take the Hippocratic Oath

"I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures [that] are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.
I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know.
Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty.
Above all, I must not play at God.
I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick.
I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.
I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter.
May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help."

[Smokin Joe]

Bottom Line: Amendment 10: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The power to restrict interstate travel is not delegated to the US.

[mountaineer]

C'mon, man! We all know that the Constitution doesn't mean a bucket of spit to the fascists currently in charge!