A U.S. senator’s widow is suing the Republican governor of Tennessee in state court, claiming that his various COVID-19-related emergency policies restrict personal freedom, violate state law, and trample on constitutional rights. The petitioner is former conservative talk radio host and activist Jeri Thompson, widow of Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), who died in 2015 at age 73. Thompson, a lawyer who was minority counsel assisting Republicans on the Senate Watergate Committee, achieved notoriety not only for his work in law and as a lawmaker, but as a radio commentator as well as a high-profile movie and television actor. In an interview with The Epoch Times, Jeri Thompson said she was acting because she felt it was both the right thing to do and because it was what her late husband would have wanted. Mrs. Thompson said she was distressed that so many courts have taken a hands-off approach to emergency …