Attorney General Barr Chooses US Attorney Matthew Schneider To Review State and Local COVID-19 Orders

Saline resident and US Attorney Matthew Schneider has been tasked with overseeing and effort to review the constitutionality of state and local orders issued with respect to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Detroit News.

US Attorney General Bill Barr issued a memo Monday instructing prosecutors to "be on the lookout" for directives violating constitutional rights or liberties of individual citizens. Barr directed Schneider, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, and Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Eric Dreiband, to coordinate prosecutors' efforts to monitor policies and to "correct them" if necessary.

(READ THE MEMO)

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