Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano on Thursday slammed governors for issuing strict quarantine measures during the coronavirus pandemic, “crushing” Americans’ civil liberties in the process.
“These governors tried to write law rather than enforce the law the legislature has written,” Napolitano told “Fox & Friends.”
Napolitano’s comments came after Tucker Carlson pressed Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy Wednesday on the scientific rationale and constitutional fitness of Murphy’s executive measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic, which have essentially locked down most of the Garden State.
‘The Bill of Rights, as you well know, protects Americans’ rights — enshrines their right to practice their religion as they see fit and to congregate together to assemble peacefully,” Carlson said. “By what authority did you nullify the Bill of Rights in issuing this order? How do you have the power to do that?”
“That’s above my pay grade, Tucker,” Murphy responded. “I wasn’t thinking of the Bill of Rights when we did this … we looked at all the data and the science and it says people have to stay away from each other. That is the best thing we can do to break the back of the curve of this virus, that leads to lower hospitalization and ultimately fatalities.”
Napolitano blasted Murphy for his comments.
“Here in New Jersey, the governor boasted to Tucker Carlson last night that ‘the Bill of Rights is above my pay grade.'”
“You took a solemn oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, which includes the Bill of Rights,” Napolitano said, adding that police officers he has spoken to “hate” that they have to enforce the quarantines.
“In the case of governor Murphy in New Jersey who says the ‘Bill of Rights is above his pay grade,’ that’s a felony of misconduct in office. It’s an impeachable offense for a governor to either knowingly or negligently crush the civil liberties as these governors have done,” he added.
Meanwhile, a Facebook page called “Michiganders Against Excessive Quarantine” has drawn 250,000 followers, according to reports.
Garrett Soldano started the page after Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer last week expanded the state’s stay-at-home order to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
He was not expecting to draw so many followers.
The station reported that Michiganders can go shopping at stores like Target and Walmart, but cannot buy certain items deemed non-essential.
Our people fight and die in useless wars, breath in toxic agent orange gas, inundated with all kinds of chemicals on a daily basis so some scum bag can pay for the fuel for his yacht and private jet.
THEN HE IS TOLD BY A JEW TO WEAR A MASK BEFORE HE CAN GO GROCERY SHOPPING WHILE STANDING 6 FT AWAY FROM ANYBODY ELSE.
LETS GET THIS SHIT OVER WITH!
Yes please! Checking usual channels every morning & through the day to see if any of these scumbags & their traitorous lapdogs have started to be taken out yet. Wishful thinking but I sure wish it would start a domino effect around the world because THEY NEED TO GO!
From a psyops standpoint, for fux news to air something like this seems like a finger poking in your chest kind of piece. Even harder than usual, somehow.
Are they calling US out to the playground after school? I mean, they have been for decades, but this seems like they really want to put it out there to even some of the most naive and complacent of folks.
That’s always a good way to view ALL mainstream media because it is ALL a giant psy-op & propaganda. Been telling people that most of my adult life. And I include Youtube as one of the main mainstream media vehicles now. Look at who owns it & their recent history of massively purging even mildly critical channels who were at least hitting the truth on the head. If anyone is still up on Youtube making regular political commentary & still has a channel & all their videos then THEY ARE CERTAINLY PART OF THE PSY-OP IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER!!! Unfortunately Bitchute isn’t realistically much better. Be aware & prepare (at least those who haven’t already)!