Posted on 06/26/2017 12:57:29 PM PDT by ColdOne
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the only justice to join Sotomayor in dissenting from the majority’s opinion in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer.
Writing for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts, joined in full by liberal Justice Elena Kagan, concluded that a state government could not categorically deny churches that have playgrounds from competing with other institutions in the state grant program.
“The Free Exercise Clause ‘protects religious observers against unequal treatment’ and subjects to the strictest scrutiny laws that target the religious for ‘special disabilities’ based on their religious status,” wrote Roberts. “Applying that basic principle, this court has repeatedly confirmed that denying a generally available benefit solely on account of religious identity imposes a penalty on the free exercise of religion that can be justified only by a state interest ‘of the highest order.’”
The grant program in question was run by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. It argued that it was acting under a provision of the Missouri state constitution that prohibits any state money from going to any church, period.
That provision says:
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The wise Latina.
Missouri was not one of the original 13.
Regardless of whether Missouri was one of the original 13 states, the Constitution makes all states equal. Also, the 14th amendment requires all state laws and constitutions to comply with federal standards for civil rights enumerated in the US Constitution. Even thought the US Constitution bill of rights only applied to how the federal government treats citizens, the 14th amendment applies those and subsequent standards to the states.
That could be either a sign of her developing into somewhat of a non-crazed dimwit, or it could be a warning that we may soon hear of a “hunting accident” involving Justice Scalia.
I would be willing to bet that upon close examination we would find that government funds for this purpose have gone to muslim madrassas and schools closely tied to mosques without a wimper from the government.
Church schools you idiot!
“She’s a radical mistake. No experience, a racist, and an Obambi appointee. How sad that she’ll be there for years.”
I respectfully disagree with it being sad. Who better to represent the minority opinion for years to come?
She’s the Pelosi of the SCOTUS. We should hope she stays put to represent the other side as long as possible.
WOW!
So it was a 7-2 decision?
With the “Wise Latina” once again showing her lack of wisdom...
Yep.
The 13 states were TOLD to write up their Constitutions prior to the Federal Constitution. There are many supporting articles available.
The radical mistake was not holding to the Constitution and not allowing the Kenyanesian Usurper into office.
He told us his foreign national father made him a British subject at birth.
NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN!
Kagan wasn’t in the vicinity when Scalia met his strange and sudden demise.
Well she is a bit of a donkey’s left gonad, so there is that to account for her dissent.
Of course. Only surprise is that Kegan didn’t join them
These three words still send a chill up my spine, even though they are now impossible:
President Hillary Clinton
The separation view holds that government and religion should not interact each other. For the government to give a benefit to a religious institution is to violate the Establishment Clause.
The neutrality view holds that as long the government treats religious institutions the same as other institutions, there is no violation of the Establishment or Free Exercise Clauses.
The Supreme Court favored the separation view during the 1970s and early 1980s. Before and after then the Supreme Court has favored the neutrality view.
Ginsburg and Sotomayor are throwbacks when it comes to the Religion Clauses. Fortunately, they are greatly outnumbered.
Who woke her up?
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