Federal prosecutors have been ordered to monitor state and local coronavirus restrictions to determine if any could be “violating the constitutional rights and civil liberties of individual citizens.”
The order, issued by Attorney General William Barr, came Monday, the same day a group of Pennsylvania business owners appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily block that state’s order that shuttered their companies.
Under the terms of the memo sent by Barr, the federal Justice Department’s civil rights division and the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan will lead the monitoring effort to determine if any of the orders go too far, Fox News reported.
“If a state or local ordinance crosses the line from an appropriate exercise of authority to stop the spread of COVID-19 into an overbearing infringement of constitutional and statutory protections, the Department of Justice may have an obligation to address that overreach in federal court,” the memo read.
One group of Pennsylvania business owners already believe the order in their state is causing “substantial, unprecedented damage to the economy” and is seeking an immediate stay of the order, according to SCOTUSblog.com. The petitioners—Friends of Danny Devito (a candidate committee not related to the actor with the same name), Kathy Gregory, B&J Laundry, LLC, Blueberry Hill Public Golf…
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