Presumably the powers that be should have gone to court/prosecutor/district attorney/constitutional court before restricting those liberties for hundreds of tho

Presumably the powers that be should have gone to court/prosecutor/district attorney/constitutional court before restricting those liberties for hundreds of thousands/millions of people, and I'm not even sure if a "simple" court/prosecutor would even have enough authority for that. Imo it's a 50-50 choice between what the Constitutional Court says (I think in the US that would fall on the Supreme Court) and what the public opinion says/believes. Going out in the street to protest against such measures falls under "what the public opinion says/believes".