The battle over the impact of coronavirus lockdown measures on Americans’ religious observances has reached the Supreme Court
as a Southern California church and its pastor made an emergency appeal for relief from executive orders issued by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
“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 wrote. “In the words of Justice Robert Jackson, if a ‘court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.’”
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