In a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and L.A.

County Department of Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer on Friday, Assistant U.S.

Attorney General Eric Dreiband said the duo’s recent comments suggesting that stay-at-home orders may stay in place long-term in Los Angeles “may be both arbitrary and unlawful.”.

Ferrer said at a county supervisors’ meeting earlier this month that some form of stay-at-home orders may likely stay in place “for the next three months.” She later walked those comments back.

Garcetti also said in a media interview that Los Angeles would “never be completely open until we have a cure” for the virus.”.

Mayor Garcetti, when asked on Friday at his daily COVID press conference about the letter said, “We’re not guided by politics in this.

And of the threat of legal action from Attorney General William Barr, the mayor said he is “bound by state law and bound by county law.” No mention of federal law.

In terms of stay-at-home orders, Mayor Garcetti pointed out that “there is no city in the world that doesn’t have some sort of restriction…because we know this virus kills.”.

“We’re I think ranked 82nd in deaths per capita,” said Garcetti.

Los Angeles County Public Health Director Ferrer was also optimistic when asked on Friday about the L.A.