Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito warned that the pandemic has sparked “unimaginable” restrictions on civil liberties.
His remarks came Thursday during an address to a conference of the Federalist Society, according to The Washington Post.
“We have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive, and prolonged as those experienced for most of 2020,” he said in a speech webcast to the legal society’s lawyers’ convention.
And Fox News noted that Alito maintained that many recent law school graduates claim they face “harassment” and “retaliation” for any views that depart “from law school orthodoxy.”
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” “unimaginable” restrictions on civil liberties.”
Justice Alito may know the law, but he doesn’t know history. Coercive public health measures have a very long history in the US going back at least to the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793, which shut down the entire federal government for months and during which many cities simply banned travel to and from Philadelphia which was the center of the epidemic. In Jacobson vs. Massachusetts (1905) the Supreme Court upheld the government forcing vaccinations on people against their will.
Please read his statement and find where he criticizes the lockdown as you think he said.