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package of this court, and notice it was 6-3. this is the conservative supermajority. chief justice john roberts was with gorsuch here. it s part of the pattern that included allowing religious prayers to be said at public council meetings. this implicates so many cases going back, as i say, to 1962, not just lee versus weissman, the case you just flmentioned i 1992 where students would feel compelled to be at their own graduation, coerced to hear a religious speaker. but, you know, it was just about 2000 where the court said you couldn t have students reading prayer before football games
cases is that the conservatives on the court are shrinking the establishment clause and expanding the free exercise clause, because those two clauses, they re sometimes in tension with one another, as in this case because the school district in this case said, look, you know, this football coach in a position of authority is effectively showing that the football team has a state religion. but what the coach said is, no, no, no, this has nothing to do with the government or the school mandating religion, this is my free exercise of religion. same thing happened in the maine case. in the maine case, the people complaining about the law said, look, giving money to parochial schools is a mandating of an establishment of a state religion. the school said, no, no, no, you
they have in recent years required more government funding for church schools, increased the religious exemptions to the affordable care act s contraceptive mandate, allowed christian prayers at public government meetings. so this is part of a piece, and it s part of a piece by a court that i think has suggested in its rulings that it believes that religion is under siege, and it has to be on the watch for any kind of suppression of religious believers, any kind of censorship, those are two words that neil gorsuch used in today s ruling. and the other thing i would note, alisyn, is that i have been making a lot of the fact that in the major abortion rights case that rolled back a half century of reproductive rights chief justice john roberts was not with the five on the right wing block. but in this case, and in other religious liberty cases, chief justice john roberts is with