The Trump-constructed conservative majority on the Supreme Court has now made it clear that, while limitations on free speech imposed by obscenity and defamation laws are acceptable, reasonable and temporary restrictions on the size of prayer meetings, designed to protect public health, are anathema.
Justices who usually defer to the expertise of partisan politicians when it comes to drawing voting maps, now substitute their lay judgment to override the scientifically-based advice of epidemiologists about how best to combat a pandemic.
Apparently, these justices believe it is constitutionally more important to shelter sensitive ears and protect fragile reputations than it is to safeguard the public's health.
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