Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch issues excoriating review of COVID lockdown policies including business closures and vaccine mandates and calls them 'among the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the history of the nation'

• Justice Neil Gorsuch labeled the avalanche of lockdown measures imposed during the pandemic as among 'the greatest intrusions on civil liberties'
• He said leaders at state and federal level issued emergency decrees 'on a breathtaking scale'
• Congress and state legislatures 'too often fell silent' as strict rules were laid down, he added

By Lewis Pennock For Dailymail.Com

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'.

'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.'

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