AG Bill Barr orders US attorneys to pursue legal action against 'overbearing' COVID-19 rules

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AG Bill Barr orders US attorneys to pursue legal action against ‘overbearing’ COVID-19 rules
Published 14 mins ago
on April 27, 2020
By Matthew Chapman


On Monday, Attorney General William Barr issued a memorandum titled “Balancing Public Safety with the Preservation of Civil Rights,” in which he directed the Justice Department to take legal action against certain coronavirus lockdown rules imposed by states.

“As the Department of Justice explained recently in guidance to states and localities taking steps to battle the pandemic, even in times of emergency, when reasonable and temporary restrictions are placed on rights, the First Amendment and federal statutory law prohibit discrimination against religious institutions and religious believers,” wrote Barr. “The Constitution also forbids, in certain circumstances, discrimination against disfavored speech and undue interference with the national economy.”

“If a state or local ordinance crosses the line from an appropriate exercise of authority to stop the spread of COVID19 into an overbearing infringement of constitutional and statutory protections, the Department of Justice may have an obligation to address that overreach in federal court,” continued Barr. “I am therefore directing the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Eric Dreiband, and Matthew Schneider; the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, to oversee and coordinate our efforts to monitor state and local policies and, if necessary, take action to correct them.”

Barr’s action comes as right-wing groups increasingly protest stay-at-home orders, particularly those that restrict dangerously large church gatherings and require the closure of nonessential businesses. Polls show the public broadly supports most of these measures.

[DBoon]

1. It's not nice to hope someone dies of Coronavirus

So I won't wish this on Barr

[BigmanPigman]

13. I wish that on Barr, Mitch and the Lump...

and I am a nice person, I have been told. I don't kick puppies and little old ladies like they do. My wish is a nice one since it saves the American people's lives and helps the economy recover...nice for the whole country.

[BeyondGeography]

2. The virus makes the rules

Assholes.

[Guilded Lilly]

3. He's proven time and again that he is vile. No surprise here.

[NCDem47]

4. What...

An...

Ass!

[JDC]

5. More fixing for trump.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Our freedom to live trumps your freedom to be selfish.

[Iliyah]

7. I wonder if the AG of WI has a (R) . . .

Governor Tony Evers may be effected by this. Money over lives is the RWer's motto.

[5X]

8. This is the money quote, tells the real story...

“The Constitution also forbids, in certain circumstances, discrimination against disfavored speech and undue interference with the national economy.”

[The Magistrate]

11. Indeed, Sir

The real press will come against the Commerce Clause. Overthrowing New Deal jurisprudence on those words is perhaps the longest term goal of the right wing in this country

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. My copy of the Constitution doesn't have that "undue interference with the national economy."

[cloudbase]

9. Guess who the U.S. Attorney is here in Houston.

Dan (you should be willing to die for the economy) Patrick's son.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. Dirty Barr conspires to commit mass murder, uses terroristic threatening.