While speaking at an event in Michigan Wednesday U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr ripped into state governments that order lock downs to contain the pandemic.
The AG then caused controversy by saying "Stay-at-home orders...is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history."
Over 6.8 million Coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the U.S. with over 201,000 deaths according to The Hill.
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