The U.S. Supreme Court has handed over a victory to the churches in California by a group that has sued over coronavirus closure rules banning indoor services.
The churches will be allowed to hold indoor services while awaiting a decision on their appeal in the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which is hearing their case but has refused a motion to suspend the ban.
The 6-3 ruling comes with the liberal judges of the court in disagreement.
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“The ninth circle’s failure to provide relief was erroneous,” reads the High Court’s order. “This result is clearly prescribed by the decision of this court in the South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Newsom.”
FILE – On this November 5, 2020 file photo of the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo / J. Scott Applewhite, file)
The churches sued Santa Clara County earlier this month after the province continued to ban indoor services, despite an earlier Supreme Court ruling that the government’s total ban violates the first amendment, according to Mercury News of the Bay Area.
The province argued that its ban was allowed because it did not exclude religious gatherings.
But the Supreme Court’s order will prevent the province from enforcing the ban until the 9th Circuit case is settled.
The court’s brief statement said the dissenting liberal judges did not agree with the majority for the same reasons they set out in the United Pentecostal case.
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“Judges of this court are not scientists,” Kagan wrote earlier this month in disagreement. “We also do not know much about public health policy. However, the court today overturned the rulings of experts on how to respond to a raging pandemic. exception to worship services. “
Fox News’s Shannon Bream and Bill Mears contributed to this report.