Court declines to order California to allow in-person religious services

[struggle4progress]

8:16 a.m.

... “We’re dealing here with a highly contagious and often fatal disease for which there presently is no known cure,” Judges Barry Silverman and Jacqueline Nguyen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit wrote in a majority opinion.

The judges went on to quote a U.S. Supreme Court opinion saying that if a court does not use “practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.”

Judge Daniel Collins dissented, saying the state’s prohibition likely violated the First Amendment’s religious protections.

The lawsuit was filed in early May by the South Bay United Pentecostal Church in Chula Vista, Calif., which held between three and five Sunday services weekly, attracting as many as 300 congregants each time ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/23/coronavirus-update-us/

[The Magistrate]

1. And A Shit Trump Appointed Dissents, Sir

Clerked for Scalia, too --- a regular shit-heel of the worst water.

[DFW]

2. Scalia may have had a high IQ, but morals quotient on a conversely low level.

My daughter's father-in-law has argued in front of the Supreme Court when Scalia was a sitting Justice. His brief assessment: anything but stupid, but evil and a downright asshole. Another friend's son was renting an apartment from Scalia when he was at college in Chicago. He said that after moving out, getting the security deposit back from Scalia was more difficult than pulling your own teeth with your bare hands.

[kimbutgar]

3. These churches are more concerned about the money they are losing from donations than

Religious freedum. Especially those giant mega churches.

[greenjar_01]

4. Phronesis FTW