Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer needs a Constitution 101 refresher.

The Democratic governor, who has been heavily criticized for passing extreme, arbitrary social distancing restrictions, declared during a press conference on Wednesday that she alone has the right to decide when the state is in a state of emergency and when it is not. Her comment was a not-so-subtle jab at the Republican-controlled state legislature — a vital branch of government that not only has the right to check Whitmer’s authority, but the responsibility to grant and withhold that power from Whitmer as they see fit.