I'm sorry, Roberts can't hear you over the sound of counting his money.
Posted on 07/25/2020 6:38:57 AM PDT by karpov
Conservative lawmakers blasted Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts after he sided with the court's liberal justices in a 5-4 decision Friday that rejected a Nevada church’s request to block the state government from enforcing a cap on attendance at religious services.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tweeted early Saturday morning that Roberts had "abandoned his oath."
"What happened to that judge?" tweeted Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.).
"Freedom of religion is our first freedom. Yet SCOTUS has ruled that casinos can host hundreds of gamblers, while churches cannot welcome their full congregations. Justice Roberts once again got it wrong, shamefully closing church doors to their flocks," Cotton added in a statement.
The decision strikes down a suit from Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley, which argued that it was being treated unfairly compared to other businesses in the state. While places of worship in Nevada have a hard 50-person limit amid the coronavirus pandemic, businesses such as casinos and restaurants can operate at half of their fire-code capacity. This discrepancy was a violation of the First Amendment, the church asserted in the suit.
Defending its imposed restrictions, Nevada stated that its regulations didn't target places of worship unfairly, saying that other large gatherings — like concerts and movie theaters — were treated “the same as or worse than houses of worship.”
The complaint made its way to the highest court in the land after being rejected by a district court and a circuit court.
Three of the conservative justices wrote dissenting opinions on the emergency order.
“The Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in dissent. “It says nothing about the freedom to play craps or blackjack, to feed tokens into a slot machine, or to engage in any other game of chance.
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In before the “black mail” posts!!
I think the guy is just a lily livered A hole. That’s all.
Roberts is a waste of a good black robes.
I'm sorry, Roberts can't hear you over the sound of counting his money.
Roberts has gone over to the dark side, no shock, it’s been trending that way for a long time.
World of the Antichrist.
“Watch”
“Lift up your head, your redemption draws nigh”
Is any state going to enact and enforce a cap on the number of protestors that can gather at a given place and time? I didn’t think so.
Screw the Supreme Court. Screw the politicians.
Go to church.
Conservatives should have washed their hands of this low life scum years ago. Stop the pearl clutching. He’s a RAT through and through. Never going to change. Ignore him.
“””I think the guy is just a lily livered A hole. That’s all.””
He is a W judge. Nuff sed.
Looks like Roberts has gone over to the Left side.
Trending? He is the cleverest little bitch Harvard ever graduated. Not a wit of wisdom in the man. Just smart alec remarks. It's a tax. I don't see anything here!
I hope everyone here gets the extent to which GWB destroyed this country. Obummer just had to keep doing what dry drunk George started to ruin us.
This is where the rubber meets the road! Will pastors just sit in their prayer closets and obey this Demonic Church destroying ruling? Or will they go out gangbuster with full attendance churches! If they wimp and hide under their beds then these Church leaders should never have had a pulpit to begin with!! It’s time to battle! Our church a week ago got vandalized here in my rat city ...its windows were broken this after our pastor has been following every rule that the city buttholes have ordained and now vandalism?! How far do we have to go before we say enough! I think this is it.
Every President Bush has to appoint at least one David Souter (stealth progressive) to the Supreme Court. Just think if Jeb! had won he would have appointed Justices who would have ruled illegal immigration is a Constitutional Right and illegal aliens become automatic citizens once they reach American soil. The lesson here no more appointing “moderate” or “mainstream” compromise Justices in hopes of clearing the Senate this is what you get. Keep sending up Constitutional Justices and force the Republican Senators to justify their no vote to their voters.
This is so repulsive to me. How are we going to get rid of Roberts?? He works directly for the devil.
Just go to church .
Roberts is tied to Maxwell and Epstein.
Good post.
The Roberts Court stands against the people and with the Deep State....
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