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| US Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch excoriates pandemic emergency power misuse: 'breathtaking' intrusion on civil liberties |
| 2023-05-22 |
| [Blaze] Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch slammed the sweeping use of emergency powers during the pandemic as "breathtaking" in scale. "Since March 2020, we may have experienced the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country," Trump appointee Justice Gorsuch wrote, in pertinent part. The unsigned order to which the statement was attached addressed a case rendered moot by the expiration of Title 42 May 11, as explained in The Hill. Title 42 was the Trump-era order allowing migrants to be more expeditiously expelled based in the emergency situation created by the pandemic. The conservative justice spared neither presidents nor states nor lawmakers nor colleagues in his pointed remarks. "The concentration of power in the hands of so few may be efficient and sometimes popular. But it does not tend toward sound government," Gorsuch wrote. "However wise one person or his advisors may be, that is no substitute for the wisdom of the whole of the American people that can be tapped in the legislative process." Gorsuch took aim at government-imposed vaccine mandates, lockdowns, church and school closures while other businesses like casinos remained open, the eviction moratorium, and federal officials' apparent pressure on social media companies to tamp down speech expressing disagreement with government's approaches to pandemic management. He chastised Congress and state legislatures' silence in the face of executive officials issuing orders that ought to have gone through the lawmaking process. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 Oh really? What were you doing in 2020 about it? |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2023-05-22 12:30 |
| #1 Duly chastised, they will continue doing exactly what they were doing before. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-05-22 08:32 |