Attorney General William Barr is drawing sharp condemnation for comparing lockdown orders during the coronavirus pandemic to slavery.
In remarks at an event hosted Wednesday night by Hillsdale College and held in Northern Virginia, Barr called the lockdown orders the “greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history” since slavery.
Rep. James Clyburn, the No. 3 House Democratic leader, told CNN that Barr’s remarks were “the most ridiculous, tone-deaf, God-awful things I’ve ever heard” because they wrongly equated human bondage with a measure aimed at saving lives.
Clyburn said: “Slavery was not about saving lives. It was about devaluing lives.”
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