In a recent interview, Democrat Robert F.
Kennedy, Jr. spoke out about the 'ugly precedent' set during COVID and how the U.S. Constitution may be facing suspensions.
Kennedy compares the COVID precedent to President Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War.
While discussing the possibility of external forces applying pressure to enforce a global and restrictive response when faced with another pandemic, Kennedy made his opinion clear that the U.S. should stand up and be against that scenario when speaking to The Ingraham Angle.
According to Fox News, Kennedy said, "Those efforts already being made. But I'm not as worried about the [World Health Organization] as I am about our own government, because we've now established a precedent in this country - they suspended the First Amendment: religion; freedom of association when they did the lockdowns."
Kennedy continued, "[They restricted] freedom of speech. They banned jury trials against vaccine companies - that's [a violation of] the Seventh Amendment. They abolished property rights [which violates the] Fifth Amendment [when] they closed 3.3 million businesses with no due process, no just compensation, although there was no pandemic exception in the United States Constitution."
He went on to say that the Bill of Rights has never been so collectively suspended in history as it was during the COVID pandemic.
Kennedy continued saying, "So now we have this very, very ugly precedent, Laura - the government has withdrawn those mandates now, but they have not said 'we're never going to do it again; - And there's a whole pipeline of new emergencies, whether it's terrorism or all these new diseases."
Kennedy warns that the government could declare, "Oh, it's an emergency - the Constitution is now suspended" due to a precedent put in place by liberal governors along with federal agencies.
Kennedy said, "The Constitution was written for hard times, and we need to restore that." "There's no excuse for suspending our Constitution. There certainly is not a pandemic exception in the Constitution."
Host Laura Ingraham asked Kennedy if he would consider serving in a Republican administration if the GOP defeated the Democratic nominee.
Kennedy responded to Ingraham, saying he "would think about that" because he would be in the position to do "a lot of good for the country."
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