It's Beginning

The State of Rhode Island is stopping New York drivers and forcing 14 day quarantines. The NY Sun reports with a video of the Governor and states:

The order by Governor Raimondo of Rhode Island to have state police pull over all cars entering the Ocean State with New York license plates opens a new front in the war on the coronavirus. It’s not our purpose here to quarrel with the governor. She leads the second most densely populated state in the nation. Florida, Maryland, Texas, and South Carolina are reportedly also targeting New Yorkers. These policies, though, skate close to a constitutional red line. That’s because traveling freely among the several states is enshrined in constitutional case law as a fundamental right. The courts have differed over the years on which clause of the Constitution the right to travel among the states is seated — the equal protection clause, say, or the privileges and immunities clause. If the right is lost or trifled with, though, the very fabric of America would frayed or torn.

There is the unlawful search and seizure issue as well as due process as well as interstate commerce, but after all this is Rhode Island. It makes New Jersey look like the most honest state in the Union.

This things is really getting out of hand and quickly. I wonder if the Coast Guard will be stopping ships leaving the quarantined states as well, say blowing them out of the water!