“Putting a national lockdown, stay-at-home orders, is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history.”
What PolitiFact found
Documented U.S. civil liberties violations include denying the right to vote to millions, terrorizing Black communities resulting in thousands of deaths and forcibly relocating or deporting over 1 million citizens.
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In short
William Barr (U.S. Attorney General) made this claim around 16 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 September 2020, 6 days later. Its rating was “False”.
William Barr has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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