Barr: We've had to 'jawbone' local governments to protect religious rights
Attorney General William Barr says the Justice Department has had to "jawbone" a few local governments for restricting religious rights in response to the the coronavirus pandemic.
"We've seen situations even up to now where some jurisdictions impose special burdens on religion that they don't also apply to other kinds of gatherings and events and we jawboned the local governments saying they really couldn't do that," he said in an interview Wednesday with Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
"What they were doing to churches they had to do to everyone. They changed their rules," he said. "We're going to keep an eye on all these actions."...