{"id":5140,"date":"2021-08-21T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=5140"},"modified":"2021-08-21T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T17:57:00","slug":"price-analyzes-tensions-between-state-and-federal-govts-over-anti-mask-decrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2021\/08\/21\/price-analyzes-tensions-between-state-and-federal-govts-over-anti-mask-decrees\/","title":{"rendered":"Price Analyzes Tensions Between State and Federal Govts Over Anti-Mask Decrees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/law.emory.edu\/faculty\/faculty-profiles\/price-profile.html\">Polly J. Price<\/a>, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law, Professor of Global Health, and Associated Faculty in the History Department,\u00a0was recently quoted in a <em>PolitiFact <\/em>article. The piece, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2021\/aug\/12\/could-joe-biden-challenge-florida-texas-mask-polic\/\">Could Joe Biden challenge Florida, Texas on mask policies? Probably not<\/a>,&#8221; discusses whether the federal government has the authority to combat state laws passed in some Republican-led states to prohibit mask usage in schools. Price is, most recently, the author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beacon.org\/Plagues-in-the-Nation-P1727.aspx\">Plagues in the Nation: How Epidemics Shaped America<\/a> <\/em>(Beacon Press, forthcoming). Read an excerpt from the <em>PolitiFact <\/em>piece quoting Price below along with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2021\/aug\/12\/could-joe-biden-challenge-florida-texas-mask-polic\/\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>&#8220;&#8216;Traditionally, these restrictions on federal power have led states and localities to take the lead on &#8216;public health measures like quarantine and isolation, school closings, banning smoking in restaurants, and more,&#8217; said Polly J. Price, a professor of law and global health at Emory University.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.\u00a0Polly J. Price, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law, Professor of Global Health, and Associated Faculty in the History Department,\u00a0was recently quoted in a PolitiFact article. The piece, &#8220;Could Joe Biden challenge Florida, Texas on mask policies? Probably not,&#8221; discusses whether the federal government has the authority to combat state laws passed in some Republican-led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-faculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}