In an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt,
Barr conceded that tough measures, such as shelter-in-place orders, had served
some good. "I'm not saying it wasn't justified," he
said, "but it's very onerous."
And some state governments, he maintained, are going too far
— "those situations are emerging around the country" — and infringing
upon "a fundamental right or a Constitutional right," namely: to do
business.
"We have to give businesses more freedom to operate in
a way that's reasonably safe," he
said. "To the extent that governors don't and impinge on either civil
rights or on the national commerce — our common market that we have here — then
we'll have to address that."
In particular, the Justice Department might join in support
of private litigation, Barr said.
His comments come after a conservative group led by Ed
Meese, attorney general under former President Ronald Reagan, wrote to him
urging action to address "rampant abuses of constitutional
rights," Bloomberg
reported.
Right-wing activists, including
wealthy Trump donors, have also been organizing small-scale protests
against shelter-in-place orders. President Trump has lent those protests his
support. Tweeting to "liberate" states with Democratic governors,
despite the fact that his administration's own stated plan for reopening the
country — generally well received by
public health experts — recognizes that states should determine the
pace of loosening restrictions.
A report issued this week by Harvard University's Edmond J.
Safra Center for Ethics argued that, "to fully remobilize the
economy," the US would by late July need the capacity to conduct 20
million tests a day. As
Mother Jones noted, the US is currently on pace to conduct just 530,000
daily tests by then — up from 150,000 today.
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