Roberts Upholds COVID-19 Restrictions on Churches, Scolds Kavanaugh

Friday at midnight, the Supreme Court rejected a church’s challenge to California’s COVID-19 restrictions by a 5–4 vote, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the liberals. In a pointed opinion, Roberts indicated that he will not join conservative judges’to override public health measures in the name of religious freedom.

“The precise question of when restrictions on particular social activities should be lifted during the pandemic,” Roberts declared, “is a dynamic and fact-intensive matter subject to reasonable disagreement.” The Constitution leaves such decisions “to the politically accountable officials of the state,” whose decisions “should not be subject to second-guessing” by judges who lack “background, competence, and expertise to assess public health.

But Kavanaugh’s assertion that California treats churches and “comparable secular businesses” differently begs the question: whata comparable secular business? When it comes to the spread of infectious disease, is a church really just like a grocery store, where people spend as little time as possible, separated by aisles and shopping carts, rarely speaking to one another? Or is it more like a concert, where people congregate for lengthy periods, shoulder to shoulder, often speaking or singing...

Roberts seems to think so. His opinion ends with a clear swipe at Kavanaugh: “The notion that it is ‘indisputably clear’ that the Government’s limitations are unconstitutional,” the chief justice wrote, “seems quite improbable.” Roberts went out of his way to telegraph his displeasure with the raft of lawsuits contesting COVID-19 restrictions as unconstitutional burdens on religious liberty.

A drunken rapist who doesn't care about the law ignoring basic facts? I would have never believed it!

Aww. He just wanted some beer.

Because he's a partisan hack and that's all he ever will be ImpeachKavanaugh

Republicans don’t care about facts.

how did SCJ MerrickGarland vote...?

F that cry baby frat boy.

Shit, if only we had some clue that he is someone who would cherry-pick facts to support his desired narrative of widespread persecution and harassment of white Christian men. But honestly, who could’ve seen this coming?

“Roberts went out of his way to telegraph his displeasure with the raft of lawsuits contesting COVID-19 restrictions as unconstitutional burdens on religious liberty.” “comparable settings” : Concert or Grocery Store : Nice Move Chief Justice :: 5-4

I mean, it’s almost like he never should have been appointed. Gee thanks fakepresident BunkerBoy realDonaldTrump

Like you’re ignoring the Constitution? Got it.

Good. Kavanaugh could use a scolding.

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