ATTORNEY GENERAL DESCRIBES STAY-AT-HOME ORDERS AS 'DISTURBINGLY CLOSE' TO HOUSE ARREST [View all]
Source: Newsweek
BY MEGHAN ROOS ON 4/21/20 AT 2:42 PM EDT
U.S. Attorney General William Barr said the coronavirus pandemic was placing "unprecedented burdens" on Americans' civil liberties during a Tuesday radio interview with broadcast journalist Hugh Hewitt.
Though Barr said the stay-at-home orders that states issued to contain the outbreak were necessary as the virus began spreading across the U.S., he described them as "disturbingly close to house arrest" and said states must soon begin replacing the orders with more targeted restrictions.
"These are very, very burdensome impingements on liberty," Barr told Hewitt. "We adopted them, we have to remember, for the limited purpose of slowing down the spread. That is, bending the curve. We didn't adopt them as the comprehensive way of dealing with this disease."
Barr's statements came as governors across the country were discussing how best to reopen their state economies after shutdowns that began in March resulted in business closures and skyrocketing unemployment numbers.
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