Politicians Behind COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Should Be Brought to Justice: Maryland AG Candidate

Allen ZhongSeptember 27, 2022

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.

“Nothing 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’t continue,” Peroutka told The Epoch Times. “Those people who have violated this document [the Maryland Constitution] need to be brought to justice.”

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.

Article 44 says “any departure” or “violation” of the provision of the U.S. Constitution and Maryland Constitution, for whatever reason, is subversive of “good Government.”

“I would investigate and prosecute anybody who did that,” he said.

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.

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.

Before running for the attorney general position, he was a council member for Anne Arundel County between 2014 and 2018.

He also holds the view that “overreach” is not enough to define what both the federal government and the Old Line State government did during the pandemic.

“I wouldn’t even call it ‘overreach.’ I think to some extent ‘overreach’ is a bad term. If the government reaches where it has no right to reach at all, that’s not overreaching, that’s just criminal. That’s a misuse of the office,” he