So the Attorney General of the United States is now claiming that stay-at-home orders from governors “may go too far and interfere with interstate commerce”. In which case, presumably, the AG would claim he has the authority to overrule the governors and lift their quarantines. Is that overreach? Yep! But hey, “the economy” is suffering! Is “the economy” kinda like a “corporate person”? Something that only exists under law but not in actual reality? In other words, another “legal fiction”? Perhaps it’s time for We The People to reclaim our constitutional authority over both “corporate persons” and “the economy”. — Paul Cienfuegos, Founder and Co-Director of Community Rights US
This Community Rights commentary by Paul Cienfuegos is in response to this new story by Pete Williams published on the NBC News website on April 21st, 2020.
Barr calls stay-at-home orders ‘disturbingly close to house arrest’
The attorney general said the Justice Department may consider taking legal action against states that go too far.
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that the need for strong restrictions to stop the spread of the coronavirus may be passing and that the Justice Department might consider taking legal action against states that go too far.
“There are very, very burdensome impingements on liberty,” he told radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, “and we adopted them for the limited purpose of slowing down the spread. We didn’t adopt them as the comprehensive way of dealing with this disease. We are now seeing that these are bending the curve, and we have to come up with more targeted approaches.”
Barr said the restrictions, such as shutting down businesses and requiring people to stay home, are intrusions on civil liberties that may be justified under the broad police powers states have to protect public health. But he said governors may go too far and interfere with interstate commerce, which is the domain of the federal government.
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