Attorney General William Barr said that the DOJ will consider taking legal action against governors who don’t follow President Trump’s guidelines for reopening the country by skleb1234
, the attorney general said that state governments need to “do a better job” of ensuring coronavirus restrictions are “properly targeted” and do not infringe on constitutional rights.on the constitutional rights of American citizens, he said, without naming specific examples.
While not explicitly disagreeing with the stay-at-home orders issued so far, he did say that some were “to house arrest,” and that the U.S. currently faces “unprecedented burdens on civil liberties.” Barr, who supports Trump’s plan to gradually reopen the country, said that the government must “tailor its approach” after originally issuing “blunt” restrictions that were only justified up to a point.
To the extent that state governors don’t follow Trump’s guidance and “impinge on either civil rights or on the national commerce,” Barr“These are very, very burdensome impingements on liberty, and we adopted them, we have to remember, for the limited purpose of slowing down the spread,” he emphasized.
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