Attorney General William Barr said First Amendment rights need to apply equally to everyone, whether they are protesters against police violence or churchgoers looking to worship together.

Alluding to the growing discontent among many Republicans, Barr talked to Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Monday about the disparity between how many politicians and journalists have supported locking down businesses and churches through the imposition of strict social distancing guidelines to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, seemingly only to abandon many of those concerns to support the mass protests that have followed George Floyd’s death in police custody.