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Government

May 15, 2020

Governor has few good options for punishing rebel counties

After the governor sent warning letters to three rural counties for reopening too quickly, other local governments are starting to move forward on their own ahead of the state’s pace.

Gov. Gavin Newsom might have few options to punish small counties that have gone rogue and reopened their economies despite statewide shutdown orders.

However, the tools the governor does have might be so harsh as to not merit use given that these counties tend to be small, rural and have very few or no cases of coronavirus, experts say.

"Newsom has very broad authority under state law that preempt...

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