U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said on Thursday that the coronavirus has caused “previously unimaginable” restrictions on liberty.
Alito gave remarks over a video link for the Federalist Society’s annual meeting, according to Reuters. The conservative justice said he was not trying to downplay the crisis or criticize officials for responding to it.
“We have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive and prolonged as those experienced for most of 2020,” Alito said. “The COVID crisis has served as sort of a constitutional stress test.”
The U.S. is seeing a new uptick in cases, and experts have warned that cases will rise in the colder months as people are now spending more time indoors. New spikes in cases across the country have forced states to reimpose stricter lockdowns on businesses and quarantine requirements on travelers.
Alito specifically pointed out the impact of the restrictions on religious events, according to Reuters, such as Easter Sunday and Yom Kippur.
“It pains me to say this,” he added, “but in certain quarters, religious liberty is fast becoming a disfavored right.”
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Supreme Court Justice Alito said in recent remarks that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused "previously unimaginable" restrictions on liberty and warned that the US must prevent the freedom of speech "from becoming a second-tier constitutional right." https://t.co/rtVf4ZQaKl
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Masks aren’t causing any restrictions to liberty. It’s the squatter in the WH that is doing that. And the virus doesn’t care about your rights to be maskless but it does revel in the stupidity of large groups of people gathering indoors. This is a killer. The response of the US so far by both the government and its misguided citizens has been selfish and pathetic. All we had to do is wear a mask and restrict our activities for a couple of years until a vaccine was able to provide immunity. We couldn’t even manage to do that.
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