Covid-19 and the Constitution

In an excellent video, Ben Swann notes that under the guise of a health emergency, national, state, and local governments are violating our Constitutional rights. Attorney General William Barr has proposed legislation under which people arrested can be detained indefinitely without trial, violating the right of habeas corpus. Governors and mayors have in some cases banned gun sales, a clear violation of the Second Amendment.  At the same time, in some areas criminals are being released from imprisonment, in order to avoid spreading the Covid-19 virus among the prison population. Assemblies of more than ten people have been forbidden, even though the right to assemble and petition the government for redress is guaranteed by the First Amendment. Swann reminds us that emergency powers to suspend rights are not relinquished, even when the emergency has passed

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