Barr says calls for coronavirus lockdown are the 'greatest intrusion on civil liberties' other than slavery in US history

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/16/politics/barr-justice-department-speech/index.html

 Attorney General William Barr suggested on Wednesday that the calls for a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus were the "greatest intrusion on civil liberties" in history "other than slavery."

The comments came minutes after he slammed the hundreds of Justice Department prosecutors working beneath him, equating them to preschoolers, in a defense of his own politically tuned decision making in the Trump administration.