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‘Orwellian contact tracing program violates fundamental constitutional rights’

The American Freedom Regulation Middle has determined to push state COVID mandates, these thought to violate the constitutional rights of residents, as much as the Supreme Court docket.

The AFLC has filed a petition asking the court docket to overturn a choice by the third U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals.

The unique case challenged Pennsylvania’s COVID guidelines, and dates again to 2020 already.

In it, 4 state residents objected to “the Orwellian contact tracing program and mandate to wear masks, claiming that these restrictions violate fundamental constitutional rights.”

The petition defined, “The COVID-19 pandemic created a constitutional crisis. For years, American citizens, including Petitioners, were subject to constantly changing orders that imposed burdens on fundamental freedoms in a way that our nation has never experienced in its history. The cost of these burdens is incalculable. Unfortunately, many courts did nothing, abdicating their duty to say what the law is and allowing this assault on liberty to proceed largely unchecked.”

It continued, “‘Determination by the [government] of what constitutes proper exercise of police power is not final or conclusive but is subject to supervision by the courts.’ … But this supervision is only effective if the courts are willing to exercise their authority to decide important constitutional questions. Unfortunately, the Courts’ justiciability doctrines (standing, ripeness, mootness) have become convenient excuses for lower courts to surrender their duty to say what the law is, particularly when dealing with the draconian and historic restrictions imposed during the recent pandemic.”

The case was in opposition to the governor, the lawyer basic and secretary of well being.

“After denying a request for a preliminary injunction, the district court docket dismissed the lawsuit, claiming that the plaintiffs lacked standing to problem the contact tracing program (though they have been topic to its restrictions and harmed by them) and that their problem to the masks mandate was moot because the Division of Well being unilaterally rescinded the mandate in June 2021, which was eight months after the lawsuit was filed, the AFLC reported.

The petition continues, “While the fear engendered by war, pandemic, or some other crisis might lead politicians, their attorneys, and yes, even judges of the highest order, to assert that patent violations of the Constitution are acceptable (or beyond judicial scrutiny) because public safety interests demand an exception to our most fundamental liberties, history teaches that we will look back on these arguments as ‘gravely wrong . . . overruled in the court of history . . . and . . . [having] no place in law under the Constitution.’”