We have been saying, all along, that Governor Andy Beshear (D-KY) has been playing politics with his COVID-19 executive orders, planning on ending them just in time for the state Supreme Court to simply declare the cases against him moot rather than rule on them.

The state Supreme Court has consolidated the cases against the General Assembly’s new laws restricting Governor Andy Beshear’s (D-KY) ’emergency’ powers under KRS 39A, and a lawsuit against the Governor exercising those powers. The state Court then set June 10^th, eight weeks after consolidating those cases, for oral arguments.

From the Lexington Herald-Leader:

‘Back to normal.’ Beshear removing almost all COVID-19 restrictions in KY on June 11.

By Alex Aquisto | May 14, 2021 | 10:58 AM | Updated 11:55 AM EDT

Kentucky will return to full capacity everywhere and fully lifts its mask mandate in less than a month, ending more than a year of COVID-19-related restrictions, Gov. Andy Beshear announced on Friday.

“We will return to 100% capacity for all venues and events in exactly one month, on June 11 . . . [and] life will be almost fully back to normal,” the governor said in a live update. That day, the state will also rescind its mask mandate for everyone, including those who are unvaccinated, “with the exceptions of places where people are the most vulnerable,” he said.

Beshear is waiting a month to fully lift those restrictions to allow time for adolescents ages 12-15 to get vaccinated. That age group was given the green light by federal health agencies earlier this week to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech shot, and most vaccination sites in Kentucky just began administering doses to those teens on Thursday.

“One months also gives notice and time to everyone else who has not yet received their [dose],” Beshear said.

So, what is so magical about June 11^th? It’s a Friday, but what makes conditions different on June 11^th than on June 9^th? It’s four weeks from today, but who knows what will happen in four weeks?

Ahhh, but it’s one day after June 10^th, the day the state Supreme Court will hear oral arguments against the Honorable Mr Beshear’s^[1]Some of the commenters on Patterico’s Pontifications have complained about me referring to the Governor as Reichsstatthalter, the German title of Reich Governor, so I decided to use only decent … Continue reading illegal and unconstitutional actions, and he can argue to the Justices, ‘hey, everything’s going back to normal tomorrow, so everything is moot, there’s no case, let’s just drop it.’

But there are a couple of problems with that:

1. If the cases are simply dropped, if our distinguished Governor decides that his edicts need to be reimposed, the legal process will start all over again, giving him yet more time, once he gets partisan Democratic Judge Phillip Shepherd to give him another injunction against enforcement of the laws.
2. If the cases are simply dropped as moot, our noble Governor will have gotten away with restricting the constitutional rights of all Kentuckians, with no penalty.

It’s clear: with the support of too many of the sheeple, our rights will have been restricted for fifteen months, and the Governor will walk away smiling. The only thing we will be able to do is defeat him for re-election, and that won’t happen until 2023.

The voters of the Commonwealth of Kentucky gave Republicans, Republicans who were running against our well-meaning Governor’s executive decrees, fourteen additional seats in the state House of Representatives, for a 75-25 Republican advantage, and two more seats, out of just seventeen up for election, in the state Senate, for a 30-8 Republican advantage. The voters wanted to stop Governor Beshear’s actions, but a partisan judge, and an officially non-partisan but practically Democrat-controlled state Supreme Court, allowed him to escape the democratically-elected will of the people.

Yes, this makes me angry.