Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020 | 2 a.m.
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On Nov. 25, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to block New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s temporary (and already expired) restrictions on the size of religious gathering in COVID hot zones.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the majority, described those restrictions as an assault on religious liberty while excluding secular businesses: “there is no world in which the Constitution tolerates color-coded executive edicts that reopen liquor stores and bike shops but shutter churches, synagogues and mosques.”
A Supreme Court justice should have keen and clear critical thinking skills. Words matter. Besides being patently false, “shuttering churches” evokes images of boarded-up places of worship in a manner worthy of a Fox News host. It was either intellectually dishonest or willfully ignorant, both of which are unacceptable on the Supreme Court.
