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ACLU Goes Missing In Civil Liberties’ Hour Of Need
ACLU Goes Missing In Civil Liberties’ Hour Of Need
The coronavirus response has exposed the watchdog’s transformation from a protector of liberal values to a political hit machine.
The American Civil Liberties Union once claimed it would defend the Bill of Rights “no matter how unpopular” its clients or positions might be. It’s hard to believe that these days.
In their zeal to fight the novel coronavirus, government officials are trampling civil liberties in ways this country has never seen. They started with banning large gatherings, such as golf tournaments and the NCAA basketball tournaments, but quickly progressed to more invasive measures, including the largest mass quarantine orders in American history.
The mass quarantine orders—which are usually called something innocuous like “safer at home” policies—are troubling. They vary from state to state, sometimes from county to county. They are riddled with exceptions, which vary in often arbitrary ways (for example, golf is allowed in Ohio but not in Michigan). They are vague and open-ended. They are not based on evidence but on “models” and amorphous phrases like “flattening the curve.”
thefederalist.com
ACLU Goes Missing In Civil Liberties’ Hour Of Need
The coronavirus response has exposed the watchdog’s transformation from a protector of liberal values to a political hit machine.
The American Civil Liberties Union once claimed it would defend the Bill of Rights “no matter how unpopular” its clients or positions might be. It’s hard to believe that these days.
In their zeal to fight the novel coronavirus, government officials are trampling civil liberties in ways this country has never seen. They started with banning large gatherings, such as golf tournaments and the NCAA basketball tournaments, but quickly progressed to more invasive measures, including the largest mass quarantine orders in American history.
The mass quarantine orders—which are usually called something innocuous like “safer at home” policies—are troubling. They vary from state to state, sometimes from county to county. They are riddled with exceptions, which vary in often arbitrary ways (for example, golf is allowed in Ohio but not in Michigan). They are vague and open-ended. They are not based on evidence but on “models” and amorphous phrases like “flattening the curve.”
ACLU Goes Missing In Civil Liberties’ Hour Of Need
The coronavirus response has exposed the ACLU's transformation from a protector of liberal values to a political hit machine.
thefederalist.com
