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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. ...

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 said. ...

As a vehement Constitution originalist, Peroutka believes the Constitution should be interpreted as to how the Founders intended in the context of belief and morality.

“The whole of the [living] Constitution idea is invented by people who don’t want to follow the Constitution at all,” he said.

If elected to preside over the Office of the Attorney General, his utmost priority will be stopping lawlessness in government. In addition, he also strongly supports the Second Amendment and vows to protect the right to life.

Peroutka believes so-called red flag laws are unlawful and don’t have due process.

He said he will prosecute those who try to enforce them.

“Red flag laws say, ‘we’ll take your property now. And then we’ll check into the due process later to see whether that was OK.’ No, that’s not due process. That’s a violation of the Constitution,” he said.