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Kaci Hickox Ebola Virus Quarantine Raises Constitutional Issues

BY ERIN HOOVER  –  The Commerce Clause of the Constitution provides that Congress has the power to “regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among several states.”[1] Thereby, federal government has the authority to impose a quarantine on people who enter and leave the United States and travel between states. This is codified in Section 361 […]