farouk
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I guess also the jurisdicitonal complexities of enforcement at a state and district level come into focus when hundreds of thousands of vehicles are daily going round the Beltway in Maryland, Virginia and DC.Yep. Unless someone can make a compelling case for such things to be primarily a matter of interstate commerce. The courts have generally been pretty wary of extending federal power thereby, so not likely.
In Canada there is something similar. Ottawa is on the edge of Ontario, close to Quebec; around Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec is the National Capital Region.
And so we had the Quebec police stopping cars on one side of the bridge because of C19, and then the Ontario police were stopping cars on the other side of the bridge...but not because of C19 but in order to warn drivers of the back-up, explaining that the Quebec police can do what they like on their side of the bridge.
And so forth.
"The police say so." "Which police?" He said/she said....
I do take the point about draconian expansion of bureaucracy.