Justice Alito: COVID-19 Pandemic Has Been a ‘Constitutional Stress Test’

Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito testifies in Washington on March 7, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Thursday said the COVID-19 pandemic has served “as a sort of constitutional stress test.”

Alito, 70, told a Federalist Society virtual convention that “we have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive and prolonged as those experienced, for most of 2020.”