RFK Jr: The Constitution Does Not Have a Pandemic Exception

As Kennedy wisely pointed out at the Nixon Library last night: “There’s a lot more scary things than death. Like losing our constitutional rights.”

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States faced an unprecedented series of government actions that trampled on the very constitutional rights our Founding Fathers fought so valiantly to establish. At a recent event at the Nixon Presidential Library, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. poignantly remarked, "The Founding Fathers did not write a pandemic exception clause into the United States Constitution." Indeed, the Founders were no strangers to pandemics, having faced smallpox and yellow fever, yet they did not see fit to include exceptions to our constitutional rights during such crises.

Let's break down exactly how our rights were violated, amendment by amendment: