Dan Abrams, chief legal correspondent at ABC News, discusses the legal ramifications concerning the spread of COVID-19 with Salon's Dean Obeidallah. Legally, can federal, state and local governments enforce quarantines? Can they legally close busines...
Dan Abrams, chief legal correspondent at ABC News, discusses the legal ramifications concerning the spread of COVID-19 with Salon's Dean Obeidallah. Legally, can federal, state and local governments enforce quarantines? Can they legally close businesses? Abrams is focusing on how local governments react. "The federal government's power is typically with regard to interstate, and entry into the country," Abrams explained. "But beyond that, it's the states. This is really going to be a state and local issue more than a federal one."