Posted on 11/26/2020 2:42:24 PM PST by Kaslin
Alas, we have a victory for religious freedom in the COVID lockdown era. The Supreme Court recently ruled that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo illegally targeted churches in his COVID lockdown order—and Justice Amy Coney Barrett was the deciding vote. In the 5-4 decision, the Court ruled Cuomo’s edict violated First Amendment rights (via NYT):
The Supreme Court late Wednesday night barred restrictions on religious services in New York that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had imposed to combat the coronavirus.The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and the court’s three liberal members in dissent. The order was the first in which the court’s newest member, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, played a decisive role.
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In an unsigned opinion, the majority said Mr. Cuomo’s restrictions violated the First Amendment’s protection of the free exercise of religion.
In a concurring opinion, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch said Mr. Cuomo had treated secular activities more favorably than religious ones.
“It is time — past time — to make plain that, while the pandemic poses many grave challenges, there is no world in which the Constitution tolerates color-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores and bike shops but shutter churches, synagogues, and mosques,” Justice Gorsuch wrote.
The court’s order addressed two applications: one filed by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, the other by two synagogues, an Orthodox Jewish organization and two individuals. The applications both said Mr. Cuomo’s restrictions violated constitutional protections for the free exercise of religion, and the one from the synagogues added that Mr. Cuomo had “singled out a particular religion for blame and retribution for an uptick in a societywide pandemic.”
The Supreme Court late Wednesday night barred restrictions on religious services in New York that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had imposed to combat the coronavirus.
The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and the court’s three liberal members in dissent. The order was the first in which the court’s newest member, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, played a decisive role.
[…]
In an unsigned opinion, the majority said Mr. Cuomo’s restrictions violated the First Amendment’s protection of the free exercise of religion.
In a concurring opinion, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch said Mr. Cuomo had treated secular activities more favorably than religious ones.
“It is time — past time — to make plain that, while the pandemic poses many grave challenges, there is no world in which the Constitution tolerates color-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores and bike shops but shutter churches, synagogues, and mosques,” Justice Gorsuch wrote.
The court’s order addressed two applications: one filed by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, the other by two synagogues, an Orthodox Jewish organization and two individuals. The applications both said Mr. Cuomo’s restrictions violated constitutional protections for the free exercise of religion, and the one from the synagogues added that Mr. Cuomo had “singled out a particular religion for blame and retribution for an uptick in a societywide pandemic.”
Good for gorsuch. Would like to read the dissenting opinion. And Roberts wife is very Catholic.
Yes, W nominated his personal lawyer Hariet Miers, a women so spectacularly unqualified that it was the GOP that forced him to pull back the nomination. She never got a hearing. He nominated deep state approved hack John Roberts, and the when Rehenquist died he just said ‘uh, give him that job too’ and they did.
Say it isn’t so, John...
Maybe it was that News guy...
John? Do you really think we believe that you have a constitutional argument
for your actions?
At least you’re being blatant enough to signal to us that [THEY] OWN you...
Thanks for that.
~Easy
The fate of the world may depend upon the actions of two amazing women.
Barrett and Powell
Why is Roberts the chief justice?
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The Deep State wanted someone they could control.
YOU LIE!!! Epstein Island only had underaged girls.
The Lord was watching out for us on this one.
Sotomayor has diabetes and Breyer is 82. If they both croak then Trump can appoint two more excellent constitutionalist.
Roberts will be shunned and only have Elana Flintstone to vote on his side.
I’ll always believe God took rgb when he did for a reason. What her final destination was is not our business. HE has a plan regardless of what we want to happen (Proverbs 16 We may make our plans, but God has the last word). But praying sure don’t hurt.
HE is always watching my friend. See my post #30
Who is blackmailing Gorsuch? I can’t believe he willingly made this decision.
Except there are five liberal members. Maybe six.
I was thinking that too. Roberts is no longer the deciding vote. The fifth vote may now hinge on Cavanaugh. I don’t see Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, or Barrett budging too often.
If Kennedy is so bad, why do we have two of them on the court today?
There is a Judge in heaven who is soverign and can take us out of this world any time He chooses. Those given great power and authority would be wise to make their decisions knowing that they will someday stand before Him! They would be wise to take His word to heard:
"There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him:
haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
a heart that devises wicked plans,
feet that make haste to run to evil,
a false witness who breathes out lies,
and one who sows discord among brothers."
- Psalm 6:16-19
Roberts hates Trump and that clouds his view on the Constitution he is a dickhead and should be impeached.
“I’ll always believe God took rgb when he did for a reason. What her final destination was is not our business. HE has a plan regardless of what we want to happen (Proverbs 16 We may make our plans, but God has the last word). But praying sure don’t hurt.”
AMEN!🙏🙏🙏
Roberts was a stealth Leftist from the beginning, another judicial cross-dresser who obfuscated his way onto the Supreme Court. In other words, a lying @$$hole.
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