TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 28, 2020

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee sought to downplay two conservative groups' lawsuit challenging his legal authority to delegate executive powers to county mayors to combat the coronavirus this week, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports. "We worked really hard to make sure our decision-making process falls within the authority that's given to the governor constitutionally and our statute," Lee said. The governor has given mayors in all Tennessee counties leeway to implement restrictions such as mask-wearing mandates to battle spread of the virus.