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Podcast: Townhall Review | Commentaries
Episode: Carol Platt Liebau: Our Nation’s Rule by Indefinite Emergency
Description: Last week, the Supreme Court rejected last-ditch efforts to restrain illegal immigration by retaining Title 42. That’s the covid-era public health policy that let the government quickly expel certain asylum seekers. Justice Neil Gorsuch penned a wise accompanying statement. He denounced all the emergency decrees — from lockdown orders to vaccine mandates — enforced during the pandemic. Calling them, rightly, “the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country,” Justice Gorsuch was only getting started. He pointed out how executives closed churches but allowed casinos and other favored businesses to stay open. And he noted th...