Justice Gorsuch's words are more timely than ever:
Justice Neil Gorsuch blasts COVID response as one of ‘greatest intrusions on civil liberties’By Matthew Sedacca
May 20, 2023
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch slammed America’s pandemic response as one of “the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country.”
Gorsuch’s scorching take came as the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal seeking to preserve Title 42, the pandemic-era public health measure implemented by President Trump that allowed the US to quickly expel certain asylum seekers.
Title 42 expired this month.
While the court responded to the case in an unsigned, single paragraph order, in an attached eight-page statement, Gorsuch wrote a caustic, wide-ranging review of local, state and federal emergency decrees issued during the pandemic, including vaccine mandates, the federal eviction moratorium, and lockdown orders which forced school closures and restricted church services.
“Executive officials across the country issued emergency decrees on a breathtaking scale,” the Trump-nominee wrote in the Thursday opinion.
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“Fear and the desire for safety are powerful forces. They can lead to a clamor for action — almost any action — as long as someone does something to address a perceived threat,” he wrote.
“A leader or an expert who claims he can fix everything, if only we do exactly as he says, can prove an irresistible force.”
Another lesson was that “the concentration of power in the hands of so few may be efficient and sometimes popular,” he wrote.
“But it does not tend toward sound government.”
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/05/20/neil-gorsuch-rips-covid-19-policies-as-intrusion-on-civil-liberties/
