Posted on 11/25/2020 10:34:09 PM PST by Helicondelta
As coronavirus cases surge again nationwide the Supreme Court late Wednesday temporarily barred New York from enforcing certain attendance limits at houses of worship in areas designated as hard hit by the virus.
The justices split 5-4 to bar the state from enforcing the restrictions against the groups for now, with new Justice Amy Coney Barrett in the majority. It was the conservative's first publicly discernible vote as a justice. The court’s three liberal justices and Chief Justice John Roberts dissented
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Roberts authored an opinion cited in this one, South Bay Pentecostal v. Newsom, May 29, 2020. That order held the state could limit attendance in churches to a fixed number. That decision was outrageous.
It’s no wonder he stuck to his guns. would have been an obvious inconsistency for him to reverse himself in such a short time.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/19a1044_pok0.pdf <- South Bay v Newsom
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20a87_4g15.pdf <- Catholics v Cuomo
Those like Roberts pretend conservative until gaining a position of real power and then force their previously hidden agenda.
Roberts will always side with the left going forward.
100% convinced he is being blackmailed.
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