Tue May 23, 2023 – 5:27 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered a blistering rebuke on Thursday of the lockdown and mandate policies adopted by many states and the federal government in response to the advent of COVID-19, arguing that authorities exploited the pandemic to expand their own power at the expense of constitutional liberties.
On May 18, the Supreme Court issued a brief order announcing the removal from its calendar a lawsuit concerning Title 42, a federal public health authority that facilitates quick deportation of illegals during a pandemic. Former President Donald Trump invoked it during the last year of his term, but the Biden administration announced in April 2022 plans to end the policy, prompting lengthy pushback.
But the official end of the COVID public health emergency last month triggered the end of emergency measures such as Title 42 as well, prompting the Supreme Court to issue what amounts to a housecleaning statement providing for final dismissal of the case as moot.
But while the order itself was insubstantial, attached to it was an eight-page statement by Gorsuch, one of Trump’s three nominees to the nation’s highest
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