Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2020 Breaking News

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@Rick_Kitchen

So with SCOTUS ruling that states can’t limit church attendance, what’s next? Can’t close schools? Can’t close businesses? Can’t require people to wear masks?.

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The judgement itself is appropriate for Breaking News, but further discussion of this should be taken to an existing thread in P&E.

Supreme Court: Religious Freedom More Important than Fighting Covid

"The Supreme Court placed religious freedom before pandemic precautions Wednesday night, temporarily blocking recent rules in New York that severely restricted gatherings at houses of worship in areas hit hardest by COVID-19. The court’s new, more conservative majority ruled 5-4 that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s limits on churches, synagogues and other houses of worship to 10 or 25 worshipers in hard-hit regions appeared to violate the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause. “Even in a pandemic, the Co…

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