Pennsylvania attorney and small business owner Marc Scaringi and real estate agent Kathy Gregory are taking their fight for local businesses under coronavirus lockdown to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In an interview on “Fox & Friends” with hosts Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, and Ainsley Earhardt, Scaringi and Gregory argue that there are parts of the state that do not need to be fully shut down and that many businesses can be conducted while following health and safety measures.
“Well, the governor’s business closure order has — for the first time in the history of Pennsylvania and the history of the United States — it’s ordered the statewide closure of tens of thousands of businesses in response to a viral illness. That’s never happened before in the history of Pennsylvania [and] in our country,” Scaringi stated.
“And, it precludes business owners from physically operating their businesses. It subjects them to criminal prosecution if they step foot in the principal place of their business. And so, it’s shut down the physical operation of tens of thousands of businesses and caused the layoff of over a million Pennsylvanians,” he continued.
“We argue that it is a substantial deprivation of the property rights of business owners across Pennsylvania and it’s been done without due process of law,” Scaringi explained. “So, we sued the governor of Pennsylvania in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, asking the court to strike down Governor Wolf’s business closure order as violating the Pennsylvania and United States Constitution.”
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