re: Simply having a New York license plate should not be probable cause for a stop.

They don't need probable cause for a traffic stop only reasonable suspicion.

Crandel v. Nevada is an 19th Century case that pronounced the Right to Travel as a penumbra right under several different amendments.

False. The federal government’s role in “regulating interstate commerce” is to prevent states from stopping the flow of interstate commerce, not for the federal government to stop it. The purpose of that provision was to prevent states from erecting hard borders with checkpoints and from levying tariffs on goods from other states. The federal government’s role was to preserve the common free market between all the states in the Union.

Crandel v. Nevada extended that role to stopping states from preventing travel by citizens between states. Citizens have the right to travel, and states cannot take that right away without due process, which requires a pre-termination hearing where the citizen gets a chance to defend themselves. States cannot blockade or outlaw travel between states.

The feds aren’t allowed to stop travel or commerce either (or at least weren’t prior to Wickard v. Filburn), but they have the power to prevent states from stopping travel and commerce.

Please cite the language from the opinion.

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Please cite the language from the opinion.

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Language is cited above. Not sure why it matters to you. You’ve stated before that rights are given by God and not subject to regulation by the Constitution.

Quarantine laws are about quarantining individual citizens, property, or ships in the harbor. They’re not meant for closing off entire states. Not even Justice Sotomayor would support that. You’re purposely misconstruing the language of that opinion.

Commerce not travel.

Sure the can have quarantine laws and enforce them. The problem here is they are not quarantining people and the selection is done by a license plate. Nor is there due process, nor can they simple stop everyone at the border and selective go after people.

These are not quarantines, but they can have them.

Your cite really doesn't address the issues.

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Quarantine laws are about quarantining individual citizens, property, or ships in the harbor. They’re not meant for closing off entire states.

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You apparently think a ship coming from another state is radically different than a car coming from another state. Fair enough. I don’t see where you’re getting the idea those laws have to be directed individually, however.

If I was asked to give federal authority to stop travel between states to stop the spread of disease, I’d probably just use 42 USC § 264.

“The Surgeon General, with the approval of the Secretary, is authorized to make and enforce such regulations as in his judgment are necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the States or possessions, or from one State or possession into any other State or possession.”