Attorney General described lockdown as "greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history" in the same speech in which he defended his record of using federal prosecutorial powers to protect the president& #39;s allies and prosecute the president& #39;s opponents.
This very day it was reported that AG Barr proposed to prosecute the mayor of Seattle for not using local police powers in the way the federal government wanted. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/us/politics/william-barr-sedition.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/1...
Barr Told Prosecutors to Consider Sedition Charges for Protest Violence

Attorney General William P. Barr was also said to have asked prosecutors to explore whether to bring charges against the mayor of Seattle for allowing a police-free protest zone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/us/politics/william-barr-sedition.html
Quarantine powers are among the oldest, clearest, and best established police powers of state and local authorities dating back to colonial times.

Meanwhile, the Barr attorney generalship would itself number among the Greatest Hits of abuses of civil liberties in US history
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