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A Supreme Court justice has labeled the avalanche of covid lockdown measures imposed across America as among ‘the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country’.

Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered an excoriating review of the restrictions enforced at both a state and federal level by executive officials.

In a statement written as part of a Supreme Court case about Title 42, Gorsuch said emergency decrees were issued during the pandemic ‘on a breathtaking scale’.

Many businesses were forced to close across as officials tried to stop the spread of covid – but the extreme measures amounted to some of the ‘greatest intrusions on civil liberties’ in US history, a Supreme Court justice has said. Pictured: A closed business in New York City (Copyright Education Images/Universal Image)

‘Governors and local leaders imposed lockdown orders forcing people to remain in their homes. They shuttered businesses and schools, public and private,’ he wrote.

‘They closed churches even as they allowed casinos and other favored businesses to carry on. They threatened violators not just with civil penalties but with criminal sanctions too.’

The justice, who was nominated to the Supreme Court by Donald Trump in 2017, gave examples of how authorities ‘surveilled church parking lots, recorded license plates, and issued notices warning that attendance at even outdoor services satisfying all state social-distancing and hygiene requirements could amount to criminal conduct’.

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He explained how ‘federal executive officials entered the act too’ through vaccine mandates which included threats of dismissal for employees and service members who refused.

‘Along the way, it seems federal officials may have pressured social-media companies to suppress information about pandemic policies with which they disagreed,’ Gorsuch added.

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