SCOTUS Strikes California’s In-Home Covid Limits: Read It For Yourself

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  1. Oscar Gordon says:

    Sounds like the court wants to drive home the point of not playing favorites.Report

    • California didn’t think they were playing favorites. The restriction was that members of no more than three households were allowed in a single home. Period. No regard for purpose of the gathering. The court says that’s the wrong comparison. The logical conclusion of this seems to me to be that if a gathering is allowed somewhere for secular purposes, than comparably-sized gatherings must be allowed anywhere for religious purposes.

      I wonder if this covers those secret funerals that happened in New York where there there were hundreds of unmasked people packed in shoulder to shoulder during the worst of the outbreak and the strictest rules on gatherings? There were still places — eg, hospitals — where hundreds of people were allowed to gather inside for secular purposes.Report

  2. Jaybird says:

    My main problem with this ruling is that it is 5-4.Report

    • Pinky in reply to Jaybird says:

      I haven’t read the decision yet, and these things can be more complicated and more even than they sound upon first hearing, but I do understand the attitude of “you had one job”. It’s weird that we have three threads going, one asking whether there are limits on government, another on gun regulation,, and this one on religious restrictions. The Framers weren’t psychics, but, you know, the same stuff keeps coming up. It’s like the 15-year-old girl who tells her dad that boys aren’t all like that, but keeps running into boys trying to be exactly like that. Sure, of course I respect your rights, I only want a little common sense reform.Report

  3. The Court has been taken over by Satanists and has decided to start killing religious people.Report