WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal by a California church that challenged state limits on attendance at worship services that have been imposed to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
Over the dissent of the four more conservative justices, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s four liberals in turning away a request from the South Bay United Pentecostal Church in Chula Vista, California, in the San Diego area.
The church argued that limits on how many people can attend their services violate constitutional guarantees of religious freedom and had been seeking an order in time for services on Sunday. The church said it has crowds of 200 to 300 people for its services.
Roberts wrote in brief opinion that the restriction allowing churches to reopen at 25% of their capacity, with no more than 100 worshipers at a time, “appear consistent” with the First Amendment. Roberts said similar or more severe limits apply to concerts, movies and sporting events “where large groups of people gather in close proximity for extended periods of time.”
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in dissent that the restriction “discriminates against places of worship and in favor of comparable secular businesses. Such discrimination violates the First Amendment.” Kavanaugh pointed to supermarkets, restaurants, hair salons, cannabis dispensaries and other businesses that are not subject to the same restrictions.
Lower courts in California had previously turned down the churches’ requests.
The court also rejected an appeal from two churches in the Chicago area that objected to Gov. Jay Pritzker’s limit of 10 worshipers at religious services. Before the court acted, Pritzker modified the restrictions to allow for up to 100 people at a time. There were no recorded dissents.
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So the government turns their backs of thousands of anarchist rioters in Minneapolis who refuse to shelter in place or distance by 6 feet intervals to burn down and loot the city but peace loving peace bringing Christians have restraints put upon THE PEOPLE of the Prince of Peace,,,Black white or any color that control freak ,Roberts decides will make him feel like God, and true ruler of THE PEOPLE. “Roberts Rules of Order” are to just Rule THE PEOPLE and give orders” This one needs to be impeached, or at least thrown into the crowd of Minneapolis anarchists and see just how long he lasts to ask for the protection of the Peace loving people of this nation who unlike Roberts understands the rule of LAW is NOT the Judges, but the hearts and minds of its Peace loving citizens who he affords no legal protection and puts his foot upon our necks when we worship. Roberts better hope the basement of the Supreme Court is secure enough to protect him when the rioters come for him and there is no thin blue line of good people to stand between him and the darkness.
I’d certainly LAUGH my butt off, if those rioters DID get into the supreme court building and BURNED IT DOWN around these traitor’s heads…
My thoughts exactly inluminato. Saw overhead view of L.A.that looked like thousands people packed like sardines in street & pretty sure they & all the looters & arsonists gathering in mobs to riot & create mayhem don’t give a flip what SC says so why should anyone else.
Seems like only people actually subject to penalty or punishment for anything anymore are those citizens who will peacefully bow their heads & accept it.
Keep hearing talking heads on TV saying most of the mobs in street just want their voices heard.
Well, I don’t give a damn what mobs in the street have to say & think they should be forced off the street & find a spokesman to deliver some type of coherent message if they want to be heard & since they want to engage in civil disobedience maybe they should do so in the now unconstitutionally banned churches to show contempt for the SC.
George Floyd deserves the same justice as any other victim of criminal abuse / behavior, no more & no less, be they black, white or polka dot.
Roaming mobs rioting, looting, burning down cities, attacking cops & making demands to abolish police & all law & order are treasonous attacks by anarchists on our nation & not to be tolerated under a manufactured guise of racism or any other reason.
Like you, i am SICK of folk saying “THEY just want their voices heard”.
BUT WHEN HAVE THEY NOT BEEN HEARD?? E VERY TIME They riot, all we get, is 24/7 BLACK ANGER, BLAKC RAGE.. ALL WE HEAR ABOU IS BLACKS..
YET when whites get killed, we get NOTHING.
. . . and if we didn’t believe where this rogue SCOTUS Justice’s heart was. There is no mistaking it now.
I shudder to think this was justice for God loving, law abiding, taxpaying citizens. As usual, people who love God and want to worship Him, the lawless are pandered to and the very thing which tempers society is denied under Roberts’ notion of the LAW.
This clown sides with the Libs much too often. This was clearly the wrong decision.
We need to impeach about… oh I dunno… 5 of the SCOTUS justices. Just a random number there.
This is why it is VERY important to show up and vote this November. Re-elect Trump and RBG will either retire because she’s unable to preform her duties or she’ll die, then Trump can put another conservative judge on the court and it won’t matter what Roberts says. He’s the one that stuck the country with Oboob care and let Oboob violate the separation of powers several times. An investigation should be conducted on Roberts. Wouldn’t surprise me if he was also involved in the dummycrats attempt to overthrow Trump’s presidency.
There is one leftist Justice that CLEARLY LIED to get appointed, Roberts, he should be IMPEACHED!
We;ve known his TRUE HEART for years.. IF ITS AGAINST GOD, he’s for it.
John Obamacare TRAITOR Roberts, another great pick by a Bush (Bush One with David Souter). This is what happens when one has RINO Presidents, like the TRAITOR Bushes, who voted for Hillary, selecting Justices for the Supreme Court. Joh Roberts ,makes we want to puke.
john roberts: The Constitution, what is that?
Please resign john. You obviously don’t agree with the rights CLEARLY spelled out in the first amendment.
Just like you thought homosexual marriage was a “right” guaranteed by the Constitution, and the individual mandate in obama care was a tax. and not a “penalty.” Even though the law clearly stated it was a penalty, and the word tax was nowhere to be found.
Our rights are given to us by God. Not you, or any elected official, or the CDC, and are not dependent on any “crisis” that may occur.
You are a disgrace john, as are the other four liberal tyrants sitting beside you on the bench.
We expected Roberts to be an “originalist” when he was appointed, though I’m not sure what Bush expected of him. The other four were known globalists who will make up their own interpretation of the Constitution, creating their own laws to suit their liberal cohorts in the Congress. That’s why it is so important to get Trump re-elected. We can expect at least one Conservative judge to retire making his replacement critical just to maintain the balance. Then, if RBG passes or retires, her replacement would be the key to the future direction of the Court for years to come as long as we don’t get another Liberal discussed as a Conservative.
Well, THAT SOLIDIFIES THE NEED for 5 IMPEACHMENTS in the SCOTUS Branch.
We need at LEAST 2 more seats to open up soon, to replace them with TRUE Constitutionalists.. STARTING with ginsburg!
from FIVE STARS to “SSSSS“?
So — how does everyone like the martial law brought on by the fake coronavirus “pandemic”?
Wake up, people — the coronavirus “pandemic” is a fraud, an invisible, all-purpose enemy to which the government can attribute any dangers it wants to frighten and control us.
The international corporate elite that runs things behind the scenes has taken an illness no more dangerous than the common flu (and probably far less so) and turned it into an excuse for an enormous expansion of government power and an enormous redistribution of resources — literally, trillions of dollars — from the citizens to the corporate elite.
We have been lied to every step of the way. News reports of overworked doctors, overflowing morgues, crowded hospitals, crowded ICUs, emergency rooms inundated with thousands of COVID-19 patients, racing ambulances full of COVID-19 patients, mass graves, and refrigerated trucks full of bodies are contradicted by numerous videos of empty hospitals, empty waiting rooms, empty “testing centers”, and parked ambulances in the alleged “epicenters” of the pandemic.
It has been a fiction from the beginning, both here and in other countries.
Even in New York City at the height of the alleged pandemic, undercover reporters released videos showing New York City ERs virtually empty. No lines, nothing. Just recently, Project Veritas showed undercover video of a staged “testing center” in Michigan with hospital employees playing the patients.
There is no legitimacy to any of it. The masks, the “social distancing”, the “social bubbles”, the “self-isolation”, the “self-quarantining”, the “contact tracing”, the “flattening the curve”, the shutdowns, the lockdowns, the push for vaccination, the push for testing, the bans on assemblies and large groups — none of that is to keep us safe, but all of it is to condition us to accept more government control, more arbitrary regimentation, more handouts to the corporate elite, and mandatory vaccination.
The coronavirus charade is no different from previous virus panics — SARS, MERS, Swine Flu, Zika — only now the people at the top think we are stupid enough, weak enough, and divided enough to submit to a massive acceleration of the ongoing transfer of power and wealth from us to them. Sadly, it appears that they are correct.
Too many of us still believe — despite overwhelming historical and contemporary evidence to the contrary — that the government and the corporate media do not lie, especially about the big things. In reality, the government and the corporate media lie about everything — especially about the big things.
The breakthrough will come when the majority of us realize that the starting point for knowing the truth about anything is to believe the opposite of what the government and the corporate media tell us.
It is NO charade! It has been grossly/criminally mishandled. 55 cases of this virus, occurring within a week, in an 88 bed nursing home in Greenwood, SC is not a charade.
The nursing home deaths are sometimes real, but not always. People go to nursing homes to die. They die there. Try looking up the recent numbers for old people dying in nursing homes that WEREN’T tied to C19. You’ll find the number is just about 0. Why? Because medical providers fudge the numbers to get federal money.
One of my friends just lost his mom. She was 96 years old. She had cancer. She hadn’t eaten anything in the last 4 days and wasted away until she died. Cause of death? Coronavirus!
What symptoms did she have? None. Still listed as C19.
Anyone who didn’t die of a gunshot wound or a traffic accident is automatically listed as C19. Ask literally anyone in the medical field.
Few traffic fatalities or gunshot wounds at the nursing home, so every patient who dies is mysteriously listed as C19.
IF we really were under martial law, THESE RIOTERS WOULD ALL BE SHOT By now.
The Dread Justice Roberts©. This man apparently hates the Constitution and our God-given RIGHTS.
Yes we were sure sold a lie on Roberts, and that is treason in my opinion! And in and of itself should be grounds for removal, idf we ever get back a full majority in Congress.
Agreed. He has one job – proper interpretation of the Constitution. That’s it. He doesn’t collect funding for re-election. He doesn’t call grieving widows of soldiers who died in the war. All he gets paid for is the proper interpretation of the Constitution.
The guy is way too smart for this to be an oopsie. I was tracking his credentials back in the Bush years. No, this is intentional misinterpretation of the Constitution. At his level, this can only be considered treason. He’s twisting his rulings to match a Lib Narrative rather than the clear text of the Constitution.
Impeachment at least. Preferably, go after the maximum punishment. We need to establish some cautionary tales for the next traitor who decides it’s no big deal to undermine the Constitution and cause misery for millions of Americans.
MORE AND MORE i am wanting to start seeing god, unleash a GOOD OLE FASHIONED old Testament WRATH OF GOD smiting on folks like him…
Garbage thrown at Trump from the Russian collusion to all others including ” RONA” 19 is a sample of more garbage to come. Me thinks it may be in the manner of racial wars who may be paid to conduct burning, stealing and massive RIOTS throughout the land by cop kneeling on the neck of George Floyd (who should be convicted, by the way) Will more details of this be forthcoming???
Tyranny,will soon justify anarchy. But, I think the race riots will overwhelm us before then.
IF IT does spring into a full on race war, i know which side will win.. WHITES (we have more of us, and MORE OF US CARRY!)
Roberts has been a real disaster. He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing!
He imo always HAS been a disaster…
No one can stand with the liberals but it is common practice by the foolish and evil among us to wallow with the liberals.
“You can wash a pig, put clothes on a pig, tie a ribbon on a pig, put lipstick on a pig but it is still a pig.” Thus the Chief Justice has lowered himself to the same pathetic level and standards as a pig.
Unfortunately Roberts can’t think straight. Covd is contagious , so act responsibly as individuals. We all know what to do.
Typical government response is to chase a mosquito with a sledge hammer. Irregardless of what we as a society do or
don’t do , some people will be hurt along the way because life is not perfect. The constitution exists to protect the greater good thru protecting the rights of the individual. The liberals on the court are hopelessly lost in short sighted dumbness.
Perhaps Roberts is in need of a civics lesson..he really doesn’t seem to get it.
Oh, he gets it! He is just a back stabbing pretend Constitutionalist , a leftist!
MORE like he cares NOT to ‘get it’..
With Covid Suicides causing more deaths than the Covid Virus, the SCOTUS now has the blood of these unfortunates on their hands, as do the Governors. Without access to church, or companionship, human interaction, etc. people who are at risk of suicide are even more likely to take their own lives. Good move, Roberts, I expected it from the liberals, but had hoped you may have a bit more human compassion, and intelligence.. but I was wrong.
Robert’s must be paying back Libs because he was unable to give them the Impeachment they craved. I can’t wait for the president to win reelection and then get to fill the old crones seat. That will give the court a majority even Roberts can’t screw up.
I think you are right on about that. I think it was a direct affront to President Trump for daring to state the fact that there are Democrat judges and Republican judges. Well if there was any doubt about which group Roberts belongs to, there isn’t now.
The sooner Roberts dies or retires the better for America. He is clearly not impartial and has done major damage to the Constitution and the Nation with his leftist votes and is probably on the DNC payroll for bribery.
I’d prefer he croak, than retire.. AT LEAST then we won’t have to pay him afortune in pensions..
A clear violation of the First Amendment. I don’t need the supreme court to translate easy-to-read English. John Roberts is a useful tool for the Communist Democrats.
OH MY,…. again, John Roberts proves he’s a WICKED man, blindly BETRAYING THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. On-cue, he collaborates with big-government, globalist-LEFTISTS, who are chipping-away at our GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS, as stipulated in our U.S. Constitution!
He’s a QUISLING for the demonic LEFT-DEMOCRAT-MEDIA-GATES CABAL!
Roberts is a CORRUPT truth-bandit! He’s again giving LEFTIST-DEMOCRATS a foothold, and justification for destroying LIBERTY!
They all swim with the ‘spirit-of-Anti-Christ’.
This go-round they are exploiting a FRAUD of ‘SAFETY’, with an immunologically UN-HEALTHY ‘Social-Distancing’ RUSE, in order to steam-roll MORE GOVERNMENT-TYRANNY over people.
The ‘PLANDEMIC’ itself,.. promulgated by Bill Gates-and-cohort-mega-billionaire-tyrants, bent on reducing humanity,.. IS A FRAUD, built on fear-mongering-hysteria!
HERE’S a small, excellent sampling of video links that expose the scam upon the human-race:
—A great discussion with Prof. Dolores Cahill,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhkwvjmgVx8&feature=youtu.be
—Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht8rUNRavzI
—HOW the CDC ‘COOKED’ ‘death-rate numerator, to PAD/INFLATE the death-count…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS6EoyA7ZlU
—Dr. Dan Ericson,..
https://www.veoh.com/watch/v142016714QgzBkA7H
—Judy Mikovit’s interview with Next News,…
https://www.veoh.com/watch/v142022871arEAPDEP
John Roberts has proven to be one of the worst wolves in sheep cloth in our history. He is the worst BACK STABBING SOB ever appointed to the so called supreme court. And we have to put up with him for his life time!
I’m very concerned w Roberts…. he appears to be making decisions on other than the legal matter at hand to balance the court….
Bottom-line, we need to get another solid conservative and follower of the law on the court in replacement of a liberal (Ginsberg retiring seems what we need)
and we need 4 more years minimum of Trump and … Haley to follow… to get more good judges and replace the clinton and obama liberals that misuse the courts to legislate their political agenda
Christ cannot be quarantined
Faith and Hope are essential to spiritual health, guidance, and purpose. A house of worship provides “shelter in God’s home” and is not a vessel for secular restraint or seclusion. The Church is a hallmark of peaceful assembly and freedom of religion. His doors are always open 24/7.
Today’s agnostic autocracy, by mistake, tends to confuse warnings with threats. Threats are cruel manipulations by those who would control us with arbitrary social mandates, regulations, and punishment. Warnings are signals to alert us to dangers that could harm us physically, financially, & psychologically. Those who are in quasi positions of self-sanctified-rule-by-fiat create their own barricades and lock themselves into their own chambers of hell. Only GOD is the Supreme Court of Spiritual Justice.
G.K. Chesterton wrote,
Five judges educated in the law, whose only job is to interpret and uphold the U.S. Constitution think restricting people’s freedom to worship is not a violation of the First Amendment, where it says the government cannot prohibit the “free exercise” of religion?
Your mistake is assuming they actually GOT Educated in the law. AND NOT just indoctrinated into libtardism..
Looting good, Church Bad; Senile Quid Pro Quo Joe Good; Orange Man Bad, COVID-19 Good; Going to Work Bad; Stay at Home Hiding Under Your Bed in Fear Good; Getting Out to Vote Bad; get the picture yet America, how much more are we the people going to take from these politicians who are violating our freedoms?
Just throwing it out there but seems to me that, the one time “Constitutional Roberts”, turned into the “do what he libtards say Roberts” rather abruptly. One might think that at sometime he was compromised, that the left has something hanging over his head. Sure would like to know what it is, inside stock tips, kiddy porn, maybe a former friend of Epstein? What is the lever that moves Roberts? As for the so called Supreme Court and the “opinions” they render, opinions are like , everyone has one, you are entitled yours. Me, I believe in the Constitution, any opinion, such as the latest by SCOTUS, contrary to said Constitution, regardless of who renders same, is null and void and of no legal significance. We have a 1st Amendment, no judge can dissolve or override it no matter how disgustingly compromised one has become! This ruling means nothing, go to church California! If you are not willing to stand for your beliefs, then you actually have none and you deserve to fall.
I am not sure he ever WAS constitutional, or good..