Barr Equates Stay At Home Orders To House Arrest

Having succeeded in cleaving the nation is two, Donald Trump believes he can appeal to each half by speaking out of both sides of his mouth.
Thus, he pays lip service to the guidelines adopted by his pandemic task force even as he exhorts his base to ignore the safeguards put in place by governors and tweets, “liberate” states governed by Democrats.
Thoughtless mobs have responded to his call to arms by repurposing their Tea Party flags and regalia and crowding in clusters, some ominously armed, in several state capitols. They claim their constitutional rights to speech and assembly trump public safety. By defying locally imposed restrictions these would be vigilantes are courting infection and raising the risk of viral spread throughout their communities and beyond.
Their dangerous and legally defective constitutional claims have now been adopted by Attorney General William Barr, who persists in politicizing the Department of Justice. Mr. Barr says he will support legal actions against governors whose only wrongdoing has been to adopt the very restrictions proposed by Mr.Trump’s own task force. It has long been legally recognized that even constitutional rights must cede to the imperatives of public health and safety.