“Stay-at-home orders “actually are the law of these states.”
Jay Inslee
governor of Washington. an interview on ABC's "This Week". Claim dated 19 Apr 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
What PolitiFact found
Experts say executive orders, proclamations, and similar orders now being issued to curb the spread of coronavirus carry the same weight as conventional, legislature-passed laws.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Jay Inslee (governor of Washington) made this claim around 19 April 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 April 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Where the claim appeared
- abcnews.go.comhttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-19-20-house-speaker-nancy-pelosi/story?id…
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