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Roberts joins court's liberals to deny California church's lockdown challenge
Politico ^ | May 29, 2020 | JOSH GERSTEIN

Posted on 05/31/2020 1:12:09 PM PDT by Bob Ireland

A sharply divided Supreme Court late Friday turned aside a church's urgent plea that California's coronavirus lockdown orders are putting an unconstitutional burden on religious freedom.

Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court's liberals in rejecting a San Diego church's request for relief from Gov. Gavin Newsom's most recent directive limiting churches to 25% of their normal maximum capacity, with an absolute maximum of 100 people at any service.

In a three-page opinion {pdf} issued just before the stroke of midnight Washington time, Roberts said it would be unwise for the court to intervene on an emergency basis as state officials try to grapple with the ebb and flow of a pandemic caused by a highly infectious and sometimes deadly virus.
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The court's four other GOP appointees dissented, with three of them joining in an opinion written by the court's newest member, Trump appointee Brett Kavanaugh. He said the California policy "indisputably discriminates against religion."

"I would grant the Church’s requested temporary injunction because California’s latest safety guidelines discriminate against places of worship and in favor of comparable secular businesses. Such discrimination violates the First Amendment," Kavanaugh wrote. "Absent a compelling justification (which the State has not offered), the State may not take a looser approach with, say, supermarkets, restaurants, factories, and offices while imposing stricter requirements on places of worship."


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: church; judiciary; legal; politicaljudiciary; scotus
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To: Chgogal
***We have to find out what The Deep State has on Roberts***

I have read that it is an illegal {foreign} adoption. Further up-thread someone mentions homosexuality. As JarJar Binks might say: Meesa not know.

21 posted on 05/31/2020 1:45:49 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Bob Ireland

Roberts has demonstrated he is against judicial activism. He avoids making decisions based on political bias which could be a good thing.

The problem is he wont help remedy an abuse if he can find an argument he even marginally agrees with not do so.

Leaving him only reliable to help with clear constitutional violations.


22 posted on 05/31/2020 1:47:26 PM PDT by MagillaX
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To: Bob Ireland
So what he is gay! An illegal adoption not good but people understand wanting a beauty child and providing the child with a good home.

It has to be more than that.

23 posted on 05/31/2020 1:50:01 PM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus aka CCP virus.)
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To: TXnMA
***Roberts' "HAMMER" dossier must contain some awfully ripe blackmailing evidence***

HAMR is a good possibility. What is 'PWNED'?

24 posted on 05/31/2020 1:53:03 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Bob Ireland

Roberts turns out to be one of the worst appointments
... and unlike such other communist/nazi trash that’s been put on the court, Roberts wasn’t even honest enough when nominated to admit his leftist predilictions

a serious weakness in our republic was, is how so few bad apples in the wrong positions can destroy our country/constitution/liberties

as John Adams said, ““Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people”. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”


25 posted on 05/31/2020 1:55:27 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, theyÂ’re excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: All

I don’t dare comment on what I’m thinking now.


26 posted on 05/31/2020 1:59:33 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: pinkandgreenmom
said, "I wish someone would just expose this jerk once and for all and be done with him"
I think he did that himself
27 posted on 05/31/2020 1:59:52 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Chgogal
***So what he is gay***

As an amateur linguist I never use the term 'gay' in this context. I have tired of the Left redefining all my words to suit themselves.

As far as 'more than that' - so it would seem (to me), although the adoption analysis does bear credibility.

28 posted on 05/31/2020 2:03:32 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Bob Ireland

Great optics if the police try to remove a thousand or so church goers when they let the antifa and mob destroy cities.


29 posted on 05/31/2020 2:11:34 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: faithhopecharity
***a serious weakness in our republic was, is how so few bad apples in the wrong positions can destroy our country/constitution/liberties***

You quote John Adams; also, Thomas Jefferson wrote that one of the greatest dangers to the Republic could be a growing tyranny of the judges. We would appear to have reached that point. I hope we can learn to impeach some of these rogue justices rather than first resort to another revolution.

As for the churches, they have to be willing to go to jail rather than suffer being shut down on any pretext. As Bob Ireland said to the tyrant governors: Let there be political prisoners. Freedom is not free - it is earned.

30 posted on 05/31/2020 2:12:12 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: OpusatFR
***Great optics if the police try to remove a thousand or so church goers when they let the antifa and mob destroy cities***

:^) You anticipated my post just following yours.

31 posted on 05/31/2020 2:14:07 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Bob Ireland

This is my surprised face


32 posted on 05/31/2020 2:18:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Bob Ireland

The a$$wipe strikes again.


33 posted on 05/31/2020 2:21:39 PM PDT by inchworm (al)
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To: Bob Ireland

A prominent quake player mis spelled “owned” and the new word
“pwned” was adopted by people

“’Pwn’ is a lot like the sense of ‘own,’ which means ‘to have
power or mastery over (someone),’” the Merriam-Webster
dictionary explains. “It has also been used to describe the
act of gaining illegal access to something.”


34 posted on 05/31/2020 2:30:19 PM PDT by deport
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To: Bob Ireland

If the church had worn black hoods and threw bricks at Target stores, he’d have no problem with their worship service.


35 posted on 05/31/2020 2:42:20 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: Bob Ireland

[I hope we can learn to impeach some of these rogue justices rather than first resort to another revolution.]


Until we get to a 2/3 majority in the Senate, it’s a pointless gesture. The electorate is slightly majority Democrat. Why would we want to mount a Democratic GOTV effort for 2020 by going after Democratic federal judges, without actually being able to remove them?


36 posted on 05/31/2020 2:44:11 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: deport
***“’Pwn’ is a lot like the sense of ‘own,’ which means ‘to have power or mastery over (someone),’”***

Yes; to me it suggested 'pawn-ed' as being made a pawn, but I was just guessing.

37 posted on 05/31/2020 2:57:50 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: MuttTheHoople
***If the church had worn black hoods and threw bricks at Target stores, he’d have no problem with their worship service***

Especially if they performed abortions!

38 posted on 05/31/2020 3:08:20 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: Bob Ireland

Ignore it. Open the churches and dare them to arrest everyone.


39 posted on 05/31/2020 3:10:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who could have guessed the Communist Revolution would arrive disguised as the common cold?)
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To: Bob Ireland

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40 posted on 05/31/2020 3:19:45 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES YOU!)
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