Under Trump’s Supreme Court, conservative churches are getting to write the rules

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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