Justice Alito: COVID restrictions 'previously unimaginable'
by JESSICA GRESKO, Associated Press
Friday, November 13th 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sounded an alarm about restrictions imposed because of the
coronavirus pandemic, saying they shouldn't become a “recurring feature after the pandemic has passed.”
“The pandemic has resulted in previously unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty,” Alito said in an
address Thursday to the conservative Federalist Society, which is holding its annual convention virtually because of the pandemic.
Alito noted that he was “not diminishing the severity of the virus' threat to public health” or saying anything about “whether any of these restrictions represent good public policy.” He cautioned against his words being “twisted or misunderstood.”
But he said it is an “indisputable statement of fact" that “we have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive and prolonged as those experienced for most of 2020.”...
