The Supreme Court decision in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo fundamentally shifted the Court’s approach to lawsuits seeking religious exemptions from state laws. | Bryan Dozier/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images The Republican Party’s supermajority on the Supreme Court was barely a month old when the justices handed down one of the most consequential religion decisions of the last several decades. It was Amy Coney Barrett’s first significant vote as a justice. The issue in Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo (2020) was whether churches and other houses of wor...
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