The Justice Department warns Los Angeles officials that the extension of stay-home orders may be 'arbitrary and unlawful'
A Trump administration official wrote in a strongly worded letter Friday to Los Angeles officials that he was concerned that the mayor and county health director were taking"an arbitrary and heavy-handed approach to continuing stay-at-home requirements."
The letter from Eric Dreiband, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, came in response to comments from Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who had asserted in a"Good Morning America" interview last week that the city will"never be completely open until we have a cure" for the coronavirus, which has claimed more than 3,600 lives in California.
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