Supreme Court Justice called COVID-19 emergency measures 'the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country.'
Title 42 remained in place as other pandemic health measures ended—but it was lifted when Presidentannounced the COVID-19 national emergency was over in April. The measure came to an end on May 11.
Gorsuch, who dissented in December, said that though he does not discount the concerns of border states over the lifting of Title 42,Gorsuch claimed that COVID-19-related emergency powers have been misused."Since March 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country," he wrote in the statement.
"They closed churches, even as they allowed casinos and other favored businesses to carry on. They threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions too," the statement continued. The conservative justice was heavily criticized online for calling COVID-19 restrictions the most egregious infringement of civil liberties in America's peacetime history.
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