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If Andrew Cuomo had taken the time to ensure his COVID-19 regulations treated all groups and places where people congregate equally, he would not have been slapped down by the Supreme Court. https://twitter.com/liel/status/1332067267488706560
Maine's governor has been sane compared to leaders in other states, but her administration's insistence on rules that limit group meetings 'regardless of capacity' are foolish. Stores are allowed increased capacity based on square footage. Churches should be allowed the same.
If a building can seat 100, it makes sense to limit the number of people who can be in it at one time to 50. If it can seat 300, that 50-person limit doesn't make any sense at all. 'Regardless of capacity' is completely arbitrary.
All the Supreme Court said is that you can't treat places of worship differently than places of commerce. Simple as that.
If you have a problem with what the Supreme Court said, you should take it up with Emmy-award winning Governor Andrew Cuomo, who not only didn't make the rules neutral, but actually seemed to target a particular religious group.
This?
This is just the saddest take. Just look away so as not to embarrass the poor guy. https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1331839388892893185
This is just the saddest take. Just look away so as not to embarrass the poor guy. https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1331839388892893185
The depressingly large 'OMG, SCOTUS just killed people with this decision' media groupthink swarm is almost too perfect a display of how broken certain elements of our media are.
Here is the actual decision. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20a87_4g15.pdf
Roberts' dissent is quite amazing. Sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Roberts' dissent is quite amazing. Sound and fury, signifying nothing.
That said, Sotomayor's dissent is even worse.
