Thread by @pnjaban

The vaccine passport idiocy is taking off b/c for the past year, Justice Roberts has allowed the fed courts to turn away hundreds of Constitutional & legal challenges to COVID government overreach in the name of emergency powers. This is the civil right crisis of our time.

In the last year, I appeared before federal judges in several states from HI to CA to VA to NJ. One after the other they gaveled down challenges to the blocking of prayer, protect, small business, schools, outdoor sports — even beaches! — despite the dearth of science to back it.

3/ At @Liberty_Ctr my year and that of many other attorneys was an extended triage to determine which of thousands of civil rights violations was the worst. Was it the violations of the constitutional requirements for how we make voting laws? Or ..

4/ Was it governors telling hundreds of millions they could only pray by video conference, forget about getting married baptized or burying your loved ones? Was it telling poor and disabled children, “no school for you— the teacher’s union said it’s unsafe”?

5/ Was it praising a 100,000-person BLM march in Los Angeles while telling 100 anti-shutdown protestors in Sacramento they would be arrested if they exercised their First Amendment rights peacefully and safely?

6/ Was it telling mom and pop retail stores that keep our small towns and rural areas alive that they could not open to sell cooking supplies, lawn furniture, workout equipment, while Costco, Amazon, and Target were allowed to thrive and expand their market dominance?

7/Was it telling parents of adult developmentally disabled persons they could not visit their isolated, sad children in any way? Was it locking our ill seniors in nursing homes to die while giving political donors immunity from suit? Was it forcing bereft children into suicide?

8/ I could go on. I’m frankly exhausted with the sheer volume of legal challenges mounted in the last year by my team @Liberty_Ctr and our constitution law allies. We are still fighting a lonely battle. Many citizens have given in to the path of least resistance. They are numb.

9/ But we can’t allow COVID or any government or judge to force us into an endgame where we allow the government to trace our every step and control our movements on the basis of a barely tested, experimental vaccine whose long-term side effects are unknown.../

10/ A vaccine which millions don’t need because they have antibodies... which they can’t take for religious or moral or medical reasons ... which may not work anyway, which may not work on the next virus of whatever origin, and which forces us to give waivers to drug companies.

11/ This American, from law school days on, has fought against the government having the ability to stop you and ask for your papers, to prove your right to walk in a suburban neighborhood, to be pulled over for being brown and driving a nice car, to be surveilled (Patriot Act).

12/ And I won’t accept this new police state reality. I won’t accept China-style social credit scores and monitoring my movements on the basis of a novel medical product to fight a novel virus of suspect origin. Please join me in challenging these laws! Liberty needs us.

13/ For those who asked, you can support these legal efforts on behalf of ordinary Americans (not corporations, not special interests, not pharma companies, not big tech) at libertycenter.org/donate/ -- we will fight for your constitutional rights with these nonprofit resources.