Claim: "Putting a national lockdown, stay-at-home orders, is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history."
Fact-check: Barr wrong that COVID-19 rules are second to slavery
Verdict: false
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Jon Greenberg
Date published: 2020-09-22T00:00:00