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Towlie

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Fri Nov 27, 2020, 01:00 PM Nov 2020

It's frustrating when a Justice writes in a dissenting opinion something that's so obvious that... [View all]

... you want to scream "well, no shit!"

Sotomayor Calls Supreme Court’s N.Y. Pandemic Ruling A ‘Deadly Game’

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in a withering dissent that the Supreme Court’s ruling blocking COVID-19 restrictions for religious services in New York “will only exacerbate the Nation’s suffering.”

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For a while now freedom of religion has meant taxpayer-funded religious events, the right to force "In God We Trust" onto our money and "Under God" into our pledge, and the right to force us to cover the taxes not paid by our communities' freeloading churches. Now it also means the right to spread a potentially lethal disease.
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