Supreme Court again blocks California Covid restriction on religious activities
By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer
Updated 1:31 AM ET, Sat April 10, 2021
(CNN)The Supreme Court by a 5-4 vote on Friday blocked another state Covid-19 restrictionon religious services, with another late-night order, over protests from California officials that the limits affecting some Bible study sessions did not impinge on religious rights and were to be lifted within days.
The unsigned order for the high court majority also revealed the deep ideological fissure, with conservatives (including the three appointees of former President Donald Trump) in control and liberals dissenting bitterly.
Chief Justice John Roberts also dissented, although he did not sign the statement by the three justices on the left, written by Justice Elena Kagan.
“In ordering California to weaken its restrictions on at-home gatherings, the majority yet again insists on treating unlike cases, not like ones, equivalently,” Kagan wrote, adding that “the law does not require that the State equally treat apples and watermelons.”
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“And (the majority) once more commands California to ignore its experts’ scientific findings, thus impairing the State’s effort to address a public health emergency.”
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, religious adherents have implored the justices to prevent certain state health restrictions affecting religious services and they have notably prevailed since October’s addition of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, succeeding the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Well, if the State has no power of assembly over religious gatherings, it should not be held responsible for any illness that results from such uncontrollable activities. The Establishment Clause is a two way street and is applicable in favor of each party.
After power of assembly has nothing intrinsically to do with religion. It has to do with public safety.
Rachel Maddow explains why the anti-abortion justices on the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade would confirm what many people already think about the court being compromised by politics, and highlights the more liberal justices cautioning their colleagues who appear poised to fulfill the reason Republicans nominated them to the court.
Shining some klieg lights on Republican hypocrisy.
The Trump exposed the gross hypocrisy of the Right Wing’s “right to life” theater and successful brain washing campaigns.
Now look at the Republican Party, America’s political party of wanton disregard for life and the embrace of death as a political tactic.
One election remaining America.
Chris Hayes: “Since the beginning of the pandemic last March, we have watched the spectacle of the conservative, anti-abortion movement praising life of the unborn, and in the same breath essentially shrugging their shoulders about deaths from the virus.”
That’s exactly what is happening. First the Religious Reich overturns Roe v Wade and then they go for civil and LGBT rights, and more. They may even outlaw interracial marriage again for all we know. What is happening is a Religious Agenda to enact Xian Sharia in the U.S. and send us back to the past. The U.S. was never a Xian Nation, but that’s what they want to make it and force everyone to comply with Xianity.
Yes, he did. Xian Sharia is attempting to take over the U.S. and if they get their way, this country will be a Xian nation and everyone, including Jews, will have to be Xian, whether they want to be or not. Very sick group of people, who truly believe they are right and everyone else is wrong.
