Letters to the Editor for April 16

Government overreach needs to be reined in

Gov. Jay Inslee’s house-arrest order for the populace, Proclamation 20-25, is in conflict with the Bill of Rights.

Our rights of the free exercise of religion, of the people to peaceably assemble, of due process of law, as well as our Ninth Amendment rights to pursue happiness by earning a living and to travel freely outside of our homes are sacred.

These individual rights are enshrined in the Constitution of the United States.

Under the Supremacy Clause, the Constitution pre-empts conflicting state laws.

Inslee’s order “prohibiting all people in Wash...