Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is urging Attorney General William Barr to watch for state and local officials who may be engaging in discrimination against faith-based groups amid the pandemic.
This comes in the wake of comments made by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in a Twitter post, where he appeared to threaten the “Jewish community” with “summons or even arrest” after hundreds of Orthodox Jews gathered together to mourn the passing of Rabbi Chaim Mertz, a respected religious leader in their community.
