If it is as bad as it is now, are serious restrictions allowed? Why the constitutional court shouldn’t stand in the way of the federal emergency brake – and what that means for a possible lockdown.
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Wolfgang Janisch, Karlsruhe
On the penultimate page it sounds as if the Federal Constitutional Court wanted to remind the new federal government, as a precaution, that the decision from Karlsruhe is by no means a free ticket for large-scale curfews in the second dark Corona winter. For 124 pages, the First Senate, chaired by Stephan Harbarth, justified the fact that in order to safeguard “extremely important public interest” even such a serious measure reminding of wartime may be permitted, which prohibits people from leaving the house without a special reason. At least when the situation is as threatening as it was in the spring, when the federal government implemented uniform measures with its “federal emergency brake”. At the very end the warning sentence: “Comprehensive exit restrictions only come into consideration in an extremely dangerous situation.”