{"id":2975,"date":"2023-05-21T00:17:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T00:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2023-05-21T00:58:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T00:58:03","slug":"gorsuch-decries-assault-on-civil-liberties-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2975","title":{"rendered":"Gorsuch Decries Assault on Civil Liberties During Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/05\/20\/gorsuch-decries-assault-on-civil-liberties-during-pandemic\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gorsuch-decries-assault-on-civil-liberties-during-pandemic\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/05\/20\/gorsuch-decries-assault-on-civil-liberties-during-pandemic\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gorsuch-decries-assault-on-civil-liberties-during-pandemic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12106351\/Supreme-Court-justice-tears-COVID-lockdown-vaccine-policies.html\">Yes. And. Yes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes. They shuttered businesses and schools, public and private,\u2019 he wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018They 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.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Referring to the broader issue of strict lockdown policies during the pandemic, Gorsuch added: \u2018Doubtless, many lessons can be learned from this chapter in our history, and hopefully serious efforts will be made to study it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018One lesson might be this: Fear and the desire for safety are powerful forces. They can lead to a clamor for action\u2014almost any action\u2014as long as someone does something to address a perceived threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018A leader or an expert who claims he can fix everything, if only we do exactly as he says, can prove an irresistible force.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He concluded:\u00a0\u2018Make no mistake\u2014decisive executive action is sometimes necessary and appropriate. But if emergency decrees promise to solve some problems, they threaten to generate others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018And rule by indefinite\u00a0emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember that Wisconsin\u2019s Governor Evers was in the vanguard of Medical Totalitarianism until the Republican legislature and right-leaning Supreme Court yanked on the reins. The results would be different if it happened today after two liberal wins to the court.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/05\/20\/gorsuch-decries-assault-on-civil-liberties-during-pandemic\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=gorsuch-decries-assault-on-civil-liberties-during-pandemic Yes. And. Yes. \u2018Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2976,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions\/2976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}