Morning and case number 19123, fulton v. The city of philadelphia. Ms. Windham. Mr. Chief justice, and may it please the court. The courts below made a simple error. They failed to understand where Employment Division versus smith controls and what doesnt. Smith doesnt control when the government uses a system of individualized exemptions or when it makes other exceptions that undermined its rules or when it changes the rules to prohibit a religious practice. Philadelphia made all three of those errors here. The city still cant identify a neutral, generally applicable attempts. Fter six it now acknowledges its decisions are subjective and individualized. Yet the courts below still applied smith. Even set Smith Wouldve be a dead letter if petitioners prevail. That. That demonstrates the confusion and instability smith has caused. Respondents, rather than defend smith, asked the court for new limited constitutional standard thats even less protective of religious exercise. That approach
Allocated but hasnt gone out to anybody yet. So this bill will pass with basically democrat support, so reconciliation that allows them to squeak it by on 51 votes. And the compromise and unity that we heard so much about are not a priority at this white house so far. Republicans say this is a liberal wish list. President biden says that he will be the most progressive president in history. He told us that on the Campaign Trail and a promise that hes making good on and progresses are thrilled with it. Heres one progressive senator that said biden has been very good at the ending the garden so far. So are these passages about covid or about expanding the government here in the United States over the longer term . As this plays out, in the background of all of this about the money, theres a shift going on in the country. Take a look. Cases have dropped 47 since the daily average peak january 8. Very good news about where this virus is headed. Think about this. The governors that have rea
Emergency use authorization to a new virus treatment using plasma from people who already had over 19. Its called convalescent plasma, it reduces the rate significantly in one big study. Investors love the positive news on the virus and with new cases in america trending firmly down we have a monday morning market rally, the dow industrial is up 270 points, s p up 28 and look at that nasdaq, were looking at again at well over 1 , 123 points for the nasdaq. This is very much a big tech rally all over again. Apple stock premarket, well above 500 bucks, Morgan Stanley says it will fight 20, 30 at 512 getting there fast. Look where it is now come up another 75 bucks, 2125. Will bring you the rest of the big tech news and a moment. Just as the republicans began their convention, joe biden brings blockbuster news about the virus, he told abc news that he would shut the economy down all over again if the Scientists Say so. If the Scientists Say a National Lockdown would save lives. Thats what
Find a bid. We wait for more gloomy Economic Data at 8 30. Time now for our market moving news from our new york team. We are going to start with oil. The iea says the outlook for oil demand has improved somewhat, yet it sees crude production on track for historic decline this month, at the lowest level in nine months. Annmarie hordern joined me now for more. Annmarie this report is still bleak, but slowly but surely improving. They had to say is that outlook for the oil markets are improving somewhat. Amanda little stronger than what they were expecting, but really, the big take away from this report demand a little bit stronger than what they were expecting, but really, the big take away is that this month is on track for historic decline, the most in nine years. This week alone, we saw the kingdom, the uae, and kuwait deepen cuts for june. The same time, the iea is looking at producers outside the group like the united eights that are just being forced due to supply and demand the U
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