Statement of JUSTICE GORSUCH, with whom JUSTICE THOMAS and JUSTICE ALITO join. Often, courts addressing First Amendment free exercise challenges face difficult questions about whether a law reflects “‘subtle departures from neutrality,’” “‘religious gerrymander[ing],’” or “impermissible targeting” of religion. Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. Hialeah, 508 U. S. 520, 534–535 (1993). But not here. Since the arrival of COVID–19, California has openly imposed more stringent regulations on religious institutions than on many businesses. The State’s spreadsheet summarizing its pandemic rules even assigns places of worship their own row. See App. to Emergency Application for Writ of Injunction, App. G–3. At “Tier 1,” applicable today in most of the State, California forbids any kind of indoor worship.
The court gets this correct. Newsom is an idiot, we have warned him all last year, do not single out churches in your covid rules, do not do it, period.
They did it anyway., Californians are Franciscans, a different Constitution the the US version. And their desire to avoid the US Constitution is leading to an existential crisis,'What do we do about California?".
This is simple stuff. let me repeat, if you single out churches for extra lagal issues, for or against, it matters not. The US Constitution is quite clear, you cannot single out churches.
Roberts got a clue somewhere, the make shit up judges, on the left and right, are just jamming the appellate courts to uselessness.
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