Constitutional limits on government power don’t completely vanish during a crisis

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has been quick to file lawsuits against the federal government, exhibiting a hair-trigger sensitivity to potential overreaches of government power. But that sensitivity has vanished when it comes to the constitutional rights of Californians during the open-ended coronavirus emergency.
While acknowledging that “the Constitution remains in place,” Becerra said in a recent interview with the Associated Press that it “has provisions in it