{"id":1660221,"date":"2022-09-27T11:08:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T15:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1660221"},"modified":"2022-09-27T11:09:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T15:09:15","slug":"politicians-behind-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-should-be-brought-to-justice-maryland-ag-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politicians-behind-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-should-be-brought-to-justice-maryland-ag-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians Behind COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Should Be Brought to Justice: Maryland AG Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpoliticians-behind-covid-19-vaccine-mandates-should-be-brought-to-justice-maryland-ag-candidate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1660221&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Politicians who enacted strict COVID-19 measures including lockdowns and vaccine mandates should be brought to justice, says Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-maryland\">Maryland<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-attorney-general\">Attorney General<\/a> candidate Michael Peroutka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing could be more on the point that all these lockdowns, mandates, orders, edicts, proclamations, declarations, whatever you want to call them, none of them were lawful. They were all violation of the law, and that can\u2019t continue,\u201d Peroutka told The Epoch Times. \u201cThose people who have violated this document [the Maryland Constitution] need to be brought to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He believes that implementing the restrictions was an abuse of power under the Maryland Constitution, citing Article 44 of the Maryland Declaration of Rights, a document similar to the Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n<p>Article 44 says \u201cany departure\u201d or \u201cviolation\u201d of the provision of the U.S. Constitution and Maryland Constitution, for whatever reason, is subversive of \u201cgood Government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would investigate and prosecute anybody who did that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He thinks the science behind the COVID-19 measures is far from being perfect, but even if it is, the law still prohibits the government from implementing such restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Peroutka was a presidential candidate in 2004 for the Constitution Party. He defeated Jim Shalleck, a former state and federal prosecutor, and won the Republican nomination for attorney general of Maryland in July.<\/p>\n<p>Before running for the attorney general position, he was a council member for Anne Arundel County between 2014 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p>He also holds the view that \u201coverreach\u201d is not enough to define what both the federal government and the Old Line State government did during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t even call it \u2018overreach.\u2019 I think to some extent \u2018overreach\u2019 is a bad term. If the government reaches where it has no right to reach at all, that\u2019s not overreaching, that\u2019s just criminal. That\u2019s a misuse of the office,\u201d he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians who enacted strict COVID-19 measures including lockdowns and vaccine mandates should be brought to justice, says Republican Maryland Attorney General candidate Michael Peroutka. \u201cNothing could be more on the point that all these lockdowns, mandates, orders, edicts, proclamations, declarations, whatever you want to call them, none of them were lawful. 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