In a narrow 5-4 ruling the Supreme Court has blocked California from stopping in-home bible study groups from their religious assembly. Chief Justice Roberts joined the three leftist judges Kagan, Bryer and Sotomayor. [pdf link here] Apparently the first amendment barely survived this visit by the high court.
♦ Amendment 1 – Freedom of Religion, Speech, and the Press:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
(SCOTUS BLOG) – […] In an unsigned opinion, the majority wrote that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit’s failure to put California’s COVID restrictions on hold was “erroneous.” The Supreme Court’s decisions in earlier challenges to COVID-related restrictions have, the justices wrote, “made several points clear.” Among other things, the majority stressed, government regulations are subject to heightened scrutiny whenever they treat any secular activity more favorably than religious activity; it doesn’t matter that the state also treats some secular businesses or activities poorly. Moreover, the majority added, a case may remain a live controversy even if the government changes the policy – particularly when, as here, “officials with a track record of ‘moving the goalposts’ retain authority to reinstate those heightened restrictions at any time.”
In her dissent, Kagan contended that the First Amendment “requires that a State treat religious conduct as well as the State treats comparable secular conduct.” That, she wrote, is what California has done, by adopting “a blanket restriction on at-home gatherings of all kinds.” (read more)
This should have been an easy 9-0 ruling from the SCOTUS.
Remember that liberals disavow God and Christianity so I am not surprised at the ruling.
They’re not terribly keen on the Constitution either.
Yep!
Besides, the “book” being studied /read should not matter.
Justice Kagan, I don’t see the language that the State must treat religious gatherings the same or better as secular gatherings; rather I read, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
Chief Justice Robert’s has clearly been compromised.
The only tinme I will be shocked by Traitor Roberts is when he will side with the Conservatives.
ROBERTS
They must really have him by the balls…
If true…curious why those same people bribing him don’t just leak the info, now that Biden can name his replacement.
Wow. Now that you say that it’s probably coming.
Most likely, this is who he really is. The earlier iteration was the ruse.
What? Roberts has balls?
cant happen, he doesn’t have any. I heard he’s a pedo and they all know it…gossip of course..maybe..
Wasn’t there some smoke about Epstein being involved in his illegal adoptions….from Wales…..?
BTW…..Epstein didn’t kill himself and neither side of the political spectrum wants to know what really happened…!!!
He has suddenly fallen and gotten a black eye preceding several important rulings. ?
Roberts’ staff will bear watching as well going forward, especially those who portray themselves as constitutionalists etc. when they come up for positions
….” or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”…..
So Roberts doesn’t think that making in-home Bible Study illegal is “prohibiting the free exercise” of religion.
Wonder how many mind pretzels he had to twist to come up with THAT “logic”.
Covid trumps the constitution.
funny thing is – no one is working on stopping the next fish market leak from china or the bat cave. hmmmmm
its almost like they dont care if another one comes? know it wasnt from there? democrats are to stupid to think that far?
shut your whole life down, but never focus on preventing it from happening again … hmmm
Ask Becker and Fagen.
I agree
More likely, his clerks came up with it. See TMonroe’s post above.
They don’t care what it looks like anymore. See the lack of action on taking up cases they are mandated by the Constitution to hear.
Pence and Roberts make out at family get togethers.
I guess a governor isn’t Congress.
if they secede
Remember that we can always count on Justice Roberts to do the right thing! Oh Lord, it strains my imagination to think about what ‘they’ have on that guy. I doubt it’s merely an addiction to cocktail party invitations.
Something is rotten at the Supreme Court.
Roberts is just like the RINOs. He is here to be in the minority of opinions when the court is liberal. Just like the RINOs in Congress. Their roll is to pretend to be for We the People while constantly losing to the left.
When they need someone to concur with the left then Roberts is the Murkowski, Collins, Romney, McCain etc.
Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett will take turns being the Aisle Crossers just like McCain.
That is exactly right. Roberts has been on the court longer than Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch, so he steps in when the left needs a vote. If Roberts weren’t on the court or for some reason couldn’t join the left, one of those three would take his place, and down the road we’ll likely see that happen more, like when Gorsuch wrote the opinion that misinterpreted the word “sex” and opened the door to trans boys competing in girls’ sports. Selecting judges from the Federalist Society list ensures we get establishment Rinos rather than actual conservatives. We lucked out with Thomas and Alito. I’m sure the Bushes weren’t pleased with how they turned out.
Since we almost always know that Roberts and the other 3 very liberal judges will always vote against America and the constitution, maybe it’s time to consider term limits. The thought of these very anti America judges sitting on the bench or in hospice (e.g., ginsburg) until they’re dead is a scary thought. It would be comforting to know that they could be out in2 or 3 years .
It is past time to consider impeachment if we can ever bring the government back from the brink. Kagan and Sotomayor should have been impeached for refusing to carry out their oaths since shortly after they were confirmed. They have continuously voted to retain their partisan ideals, even when those ideals are counter to the Constitution. It is something I expected which the Senate republicans confirmed them. So I am not surprised.
I am more comforted by the knowledge that the younger cadre of justices follow the constitution not everything goes if it is propounded by progressive elites
The younger cadre have already shown their true colors and they will NOT follow the constitution. Instead, they will just tell you that you have “no standing.”
This is low hanging fruit for the weak conservatives on the court.
And low hanging fruit, apparently, who always want to find the clouds attached to the silver linings.
Not all patriots are unhappy, never-satisfied people.
Thing is, Albert, that ACB and Kav see no need for Elections that are free of corruption.
And it’s corrupt elections that have led to the kind of crap we are seeing come out of CA., etc.
So yeah, this was low-hanging fruit. ACB and Kav get to run out now as “heroes”, just weeks after throwing the whole country under the bus.
A packed court would give them the karma they deserve.
That could be. I am not an attorney. I do know the evidence of enough massive fraud being conducted to overturn the election was NOT presented in court cases…widespread anecdoctal evidence with smatterings of hard evidence is not evidence sufficient to overturn the election IF the court is going to set the bar at that high of a place.
I wish they had. I wish the campaign, which saw what was coming, would have focused on voter integrity from 2016 on, which they handed off to Pence and got no where.
It sucks, but inaction for years, the lack of local and state GOP parties in preparing to monitor the actual votes being cast, etc. also was poorly planned.
But when the SCOTUS gets it right, it is important to note that as well.
They refused to even *look* at the evidence that was handed to them.
So they, and we, don’t know what was in it.
The dissenters seemed to think that the building in which the religious gathering was held made the difference – hold a religious meeting in a house of worship – I think they’ve already struck down Newsom’s regulation on that – might be ok, but the same number of people in a house?
“Whenever two or three of you are gather in My name, there am I with you.” Matthew 18:20.
Correct. The Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles in the upper chamber, not under the Bernini throne in St. Peters.
snake tongue.
does the constitution reference a building?
Those in churches worldwide are subject to raids and arrests, often justified (sic) with dubious charges. Add another tool to the autocratic toolbox.
Get your guns, folks. Do not abide by these ridiculous rules. We are strong Americans, not wimps.
try raiding a masonic lodge
“California doesn’t have to treat at-home religious gatherings “the same as hardware stores and hair salons,” (Kagan) contended.”
Proving the point that the left hates Christianity.
She sounds like just another nasty leftist supremacist that disguises their anger by intellectually justifiying their passive-aggressive behavior.
To those of us who knew the pain
Of valentines that never came
And those whose names were never called
When choosing sides for basketball
It was long ago and far away
The world was younger than today
When dreams were all they gave for free
To ugly duckling girls like me
I love that song
Seems quite strange since Biden raised Catholic and all his family and Nancy as well. DUH.
Hi,
Please research and look at the Law of Quarantine and the Law of the Sea (so-called “Admiralty Law” today). That is the law CJ Roberts and his Ilk are “travelling under”. They believe that the world is governed by that ancient law of the mariner and the risk-bearers, on behalf of the masters, the royals et al. Once you explain that, the lightbulb will click for millions, because that many have been on cruises. We are at sea, but my captain reigns, not theirs.
A thrown bone.
The investigation by any non marxist US media remaining into the story of how and why Roberts was compromised will be fascinating.
Of course it’s always possible he was always just standard Admin State Establishment and for Bush was a feature not a bug.
I’m trying to think of the left having one of their justices go “maverick” on them the way it usually does with Republicans. Must be that amazing Republican infrastructure we just need to keep.
We should enjoin Supreme Court Justices from attending any cocktail party not held in a red state
I belong to what was always a whole scripture denomination whose members tended to be very conservative in their views. At confirmation we said we would die rather than reject the Gospel.
While our official beliefs remain the same, I notice that some clergy are beginning to embrace some globalist views as under “charity,” and follow the CDC as much as scripture.
I often wonder how much we will be under the government boot before they realize that fascism and Christianity don’t mix.
At least we had one pastor (originally from Poland) who recently took the correct position.
I truly wonder what they have on Roberts. (He’s dirtbag regardless)
So the argument goes, “Blah, blah, blah, blah, Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, blah, blah,blah blah”, and , according to Minister of Justice Kagan, the feral gubment has been acting only in the interest of maintaining the public’s health.
Folks, we’re on thin ice here, and when was the last time you heard the word equality being used as the latest buzzword in the fight for civil rights or human rights? It was replaced by “fairness” not so long ago, only to have its brief shelf life supplanted by “justice”, previously the the jurisdiction of our constituted governments. Now justice has become another CNN Rorschach inkblot that means whatever the geniuses in Silicon Valley and Washington D.C. want it to mean.
If we have a movement, it’s time to get it moving. THEY can mob the streets whenever they want to with a half dozen phone calls. THEY have control of education, media, and more than two thirds of the feral gubment. WE have 80 to 100 million people sitting on out duffs checking our favorite political news blogs every morning to find out if anything changed.
It ain’t a movement when it sits on its ass waiting for the next (stolen/hacked) election to make some changes while THEY are actively taking steps to shut us down.
Either we’re in or we’re serfs. Now or never is not another four years down the road.
This was no victory. Its a warning as to what’s coming.
I recall reading a book some years ago (sadly I cannot remember the title) that basically said the Bush’s and Clintons always nominated judges for which they had dirt on. The reason was they could controll desired outcomes because of the dirt they had on the person.
Given wha5 we have witnessed the past 4 years I sadly say there may be some truth to that.
“Chief Justice Roberts joined the three leftist judges Kagan, Bryer and Sotomayor. ”
What’s wrong with this sentence?
I think we are at a point now where we can just acknowledge Roberts AS ONE OF THE FOUR LEFTIST judges on the corrupt Supreme Court.
I think we were there when he let the ACA thru.
An Islamist, a Communist and a Globalist walk into a room.
Then he’s joined there by a couple of crooked judges.
“I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of “Admin.” The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.“–C.S. Lewis, “The Screwtape Letters”
John Roberts has gone from a shock, to a disappointment and now a nightmare.
May he burn in hell.
A Bushie to the core. A Bushie never has your back, he only stabs you in the back.
and again –e.g., as soon as out of office, pro-life misunderestimated Bushie’s family started celebrating and raising money for planned parenthood. Never, ever trust a Bushie.
For real?
Herein — https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/former-first-daughter-barbara-bush-161944991.html
The Bushh family turned out to be Globalist, War mongers, and anti American first policies. The young Bush that FOX has a hard on for, should be held to a VERY high standard since his genetics make him suspect.
NO GEORGE P. BUSH!!! NEVER, EVER ANOTHER BUSH!!! (Signed a deceived, dedicated George W. Bush worker!)
In time … .
Once again Roberts demonstrates he is not worth the paper on which his paycheck is printed. (I hesitate to use his title “Justice”, as he has proved to be anything but.)
The worst is yet to come.
I hated “liking” that. 🙁
I know. It’s terrible, but truthful.
I’m also very curious how the Supreme Court opinion is regarding “ Community Caretaker” when the government again attempts to circumvent the 4th Amendment.
We are nearing a time in which we cannot turn back. WE all feel it!
Nothing a little court packing can’t fix.
If religion is the last bastion of resistance from communism, then this book is the approximate manual on how it will eventually be subjugated if the resistance is not sufficient: a history of how the CCP decimated Catholic resistance in the 1950s: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674061538
It is worth the price, or digging around and finding a cheaper copy, for the education. History rhymes.
Excerpt:
“The CCP had not yet been able to destroy the church. But it had decisively managed to divide it into opposing camps: the Vatican “loyalists” and the “patriotics.” In this climate, the “patriotic” church finally began to take definitive form. It could now count on the support of the “patriotic” clergy, those priests who had compromised with the regime. These priests could be easily identified now because they were still allowed to function openly in Shanghai, and the great majority had proven their loyalty to the regime by signing the declaration against their bishop.
[…]
These “patriotic” priests proved useful to the regime. They now controlled most of the parishes, and they administered – with impunity – communion to “patriotic ” Catholics, and to members of the Communist Youth League as well. This was the very practice that had been forbidden by the Vatican. It was a powerful blow against the unity of the church.
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The majority of priests who were not imprisoned qualified as “patriotic” priests, and they at least passively went along with the dictates of the “patriotic” church. Yet a handful of priests took a far more active role in collaborating with the regime…” (p. 173-173)
This was only possible because of the excellent work of PDJT in refraining our nation’s judiciary!
It would be easy to imagine this case with RBG still around. It would be a 5-4 defeat for the 1st Amendment.
Roberts again!
Everyone should get very familiar with this case that was heard in March and awaiting an opinion from the Supreme Court regarding your 4th Amendment rights.
https://www.theusconstitution.org/litigation/caniglia-v-strom/
May 1st i revolt against the FAKe branches of the united states. the constitution isnt rocket science – and i dont need the supreme court deciding how to dismantle it.
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may 1 i retire my smart phone to one location. only time i use it is in 1 location. 1 location. 1 location.
I’ve been doing that for years, WhiteBoard. I treat my cellphone as if it’s a landline with a cord attached to the wall. Life goes on and I’ve never regretted not bringing my phone with me when I leave the house.
I have started to leave it home also as much as possible. I realized if I got along without it 30 years ago, I can get along without it now. I am going to have to go back to using maps though. That will be tough. I have a lousy sense of direction. But if I survived then, I can survive now. I even bought myself a good old-fashioned watch because I realized how much I was needing my phone just to keep track of the time.
yep , imagine driving when the cellphones are censored from maga people using them.. no more SIRI or GOOGLE MAPS
you are brilliant then.. if people just traded cell phones then big tech would have nothing
The location of my cell phone is my coffee table.
again inspire others. first follower! you rock!
Several years ago, in the middle of the night, Huge flashlights were shining in my bedroom windows. People were running all around my house! No land line..”Where the hell is my cell phone??!!” Found it! Leaving all the lights out, I went to a front window to see 8 police officers in my front yard. Using my cell phone, I called 911 to ask what the heck was going on. They were chasing a criminal who ran into my yard. (He was caught.). I never go to sleep without my cell phone on my bedside table and plugged in. (Also my slippers and a robe!!!)
” Apparently the first amendment barely survived this visit by the high court.”
It is almost as dead as Biden’s brain. As fast as Biden’s brain is dying, he will probably still be President when the First Amendment is pronounced dead.
Remember what is said in Isaiah 60:2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
The Roman Catholic Church should excommunicate John Roberts for failing, in his appointed position of particular responsibility, to uphold our Nation’s 1st Amendment Constitutional Right to Freedom of Worship. But “the Church” won’t, because it has become “woke”. This is not the Roman Catholic Church of my upbringing, but I am “elderly” now, so my voice no longer counts.
Some of you may jump all over me if you like, but I was raised as the granddaughter of Sicilian immigrant grandparents, good Catholics, who fled the territory of the Italian Mafia in the early 20th century, with almost nothing to their name. They survived the earliest of their struggles, survived the Great Depression, and survived the hardships of WWII. I was educated in the Catholic Church and in Catholic school, a K-8 education for which I am incalculably grateful. What happened to my Church? Rhetorical question.
John Roberts, CJ SCOTUS, is a disgrace, a failure, and should “throw himself on his sword” – resign.
Thank you so much, George W. Bush.
I believed you, “W”. You fooled me and you failed me, in too many ways to count.
CJ John Roberts is only one of your failures, but he is proving to be one of the most dangerous because he remains untouchable.
At least this time, there was a SCOTUS majority to get to the right decision. What happens next, after the O’Biden cabal launches the next assault against our U.S. Constitution? Oh wait, we already know. See SD’s other posts and threads today.
Reply to myself. The RC will not consider the U.S. Constitution. I know that this is not grounds for excommunication, but perhaps, in this case, it should be. Time for The Church to step up and defend itself – and its members – in real life and in real time.
Jesus threw the moneychangers and the vendors of “flawless lambs” out of the Temple. He led by example.
He knew the truth.
Yes, but the Dope is too busy covering for child molestors, and advocating for communism to be worried about his flock. As a Catholic, I am saying that the Church as become a running joke.
The Dope isn’t the Pope. The coward is still the Pope.
So, we are now down to ONE PERSON deciding whether it is legal or illegal for me to practice my religion? It is time for a non-lawyer to address the SCOTUS judges directly on this issue.
Article [I.]
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Dear SCOTUS, how can a government prohibition on assembling for a bible study not be in direct violation of the 1st Amendment? The answer is that it IS and that all the justices who voted yes should be removed from the court for incompetence.
Maybe Mr(s). Kagan believes that the Constitution grants hardware stores, hair salons and porno stores the same degree of weight as religion. We are well past following the Constitution, including Barrett, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. Next time, if ever, we get the chance, put some ideologue on the bench. Common sense and logic rule over communism and academic debate club.
Yep. Roberts sided with the Communists
The CeyeA must have some great footage of Roberts and some young boys/girls.
I wonder about that, George. I think this is who he really is, and he is not basing his decisions on fear of consequences to himself or family. This is the real John Roberts. He said what he needed to say to be confirmed. We. were. had.
You are perhaps, correct. I have reservations because his record showed him to be conservative and Originalist in his rulings. Once he got in, he suddenly changed his mind set. Either he is a great pretender or someone helped him change.
So your saying it was what normally happens with the GOP.
So you’re literally allowed to have Fauci AIDS orgies but home Bible study might spread a 3 day cold with 99.98% survivability.
We barely have a country anymore. When some kind of split happens, the Left will run to us in droves like they always do and try to destroy us from within a second time.
I’m afraid we’re going to have to be VERY picky about the numbers we let in the way Israel has to for the same reason, to avoid being immigrated out of existence.
Both Roberts and AG Barr thought by being overly impartial and granting power to the Bolsheviks on the Supreme Court and in power at the DOJ the Bolsheviks would become less militant, less partisan and serve the interests of justice fairly. Both Robert and Barr were idiots!
Both Robert and Barr were idiots!
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Wrong. They knew exactly what they were doing.
‘In her dissent, Kagan contended that the First Amendment “requires that a State treat religious conduct as well as the State treats comparable secular conduct.”’
That argument dies have some merit. While the majority’s decision is welcome, what really needs to happen is suits brought against governments’ restrictions against all constitutional conduct, religious or secular.
The problem is not merely how how the state is treating this group or that, but how it is treating all of us. Getting tied up in the weeds of one group threatens to legitimize the the same actions against others that courts don’t strike down.
Secular leftists are growing ever more impatient with any argument that the State got it wrong.
Russian collusion? The FBI must have had some evidence.
Global warming? Government scientists must have some evidence.
Face masks? Government scientists must have some evidence.
Lockdowns? Government scientists must have some evidence.
Ad infinitum..
I fear the Supreme Court will soon refuse to hear such cases. The earth is flat and the State got it wrong. You big silly!
“In an unsigned opinion”. That right there has all the red flags go up.
Activist judges strike again. It’s amazing how many SC decisions are 5 to 4 along ideological lines. And they saw they aren’t political. And justice Roberts, the Bush gift that keeps on giving.
Do people still place their hand on a bible and swear to God in a courtroom ?
What do people expect from enemies of the constitution and the oath they take who sit on the Supreme Court ?
When they don’t believe in God, what difference does it make what they swear on?
I’m not attacking you … it’s just they think they are gods!
Lord, I really don’t care where you send these unpatriotic judges, just PLEASE make them leave the Supreme Court.????????????
Somebody give Roberts a bottle of arsenic.
Biden will pack the court so what difference does it make.
I’m surprised ACB didn’t do a little virtue signaling for the lefties. She probably just wants to save a little conservative cred before she sells us out on the really big stuff.
To think that in the USA the vote was 5-4 with 4 Supreme Court justices actually voting to allow government to send in police to fine and drag off to jail peaceful Christians meeting to worship in their own homes.
What does that 4 want next, coliseums filled with lions? Or, is this really about Karl Marx’s totalitarian global state atheist politic they’ve fallen in love with… gulags, democide?
yes
The communists want to pack the court.
Democrat and Republican communists?
No one should be surprised by the behavior of Chief Justice Roberts as he was a former LGBQWERTY advocate. It was conservatives’ fault for allowing the LGBQWERTY Republicans to persuade them to accept his nomination. They knew better when Meiers was nominated. You can not trust progressive/moderate/libertarian Republicans if your goal is adherence to the COTUS/BOR. All we received from POTUS Trump was three feckless libertarians.
Chief Justice Roberts joined the three leftist judges Kagan, Bryer and Sotomayor.
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Is there ANYONE who still thinks that this tool isn’t a leftist?
First amendment hanging on by a thread. Should insult every American it was 5-4 not 9-0.
This should bring more scrutiny to many of the other 5/4 rulings in as many decades, as many of them should have been more clear cut.
Unalienable rights. All the LGBWERTY jurists can do is gaslight you.
Chief Justice Roberts joined
the threehis fellow leftist judges Kagan, Bryer and Sotomayor.He’s has always been one of them. He’s a former LGBQWERTY advocate.