Fulton versus city of philadelphia. The honorable chief justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Oye, oye, oye. All persons having business honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to get their attention for the court is now sitting. God save the United States and this honorable court. Roberts we will hear argument this morning in case number 19120 three, fulton versus city of philadelphia. Ms. Windham . Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court. The courts below made a civil error. They fail to understand where smith controls and where does not. Smith does not control where a government uses individual exemptions or makes other exceptions that undermine rules or when it changes rules to prohibit a religious practice. Philadelphia made all three errors here. The city cannot identify a neutral, generally applicable law after six attempt. Attempts. It now acknowledges its decisions are subjective and individualized. Yet the cou
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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
Stunning message from the white house a 100,000 to 240,000 americans are likely to die over the next few weeks from this coronavirus a sobering news comes on the same day. The death toll in america surpassed chinas official count taking a look at the come from the case count tonight there have been at least 811 new deaths in the United States just today this number represents the most reported deaths in a single day in this country. That brings the death toll in the u. S. In nearly 4,000 people with a number of cases topping 189,000. Both of these numbers are greater than what has been officially reported out of china. Globally there are more than 858,000 cases of coronavirus and more than 42,000 people have died here in california. There are more than 8400 cases, 175 people have died. This is all according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus tracker map for the first time the White House Coronavirus task force including President Trump told the American People to. Brace themse
Home to at least now may 3rd happening today, the Santa Clara Convention center is going to be used as a makeshift hospital for coronavirus patients kron fours will tran is there live to take a look and how its going to be seup well. Daria you justheard the numbers of fatalities from im coronavirus and that put some strain on the hospital in a preemptive move. The city of santa cla they allowed people to go inside specifally and heres video the National Guard going inside last frid it is ready to go ey spent 12 hours side the Convention Center setting up 250 cots for men and women they will be separated the whole idea ju like shelter in place is to flatten the curve take the load off the hospitals they will start accepting patients who are positivfor coronavirus and that is important cause if you are next to each other in cots you dont have that 6 feet of distance apart from each other, but the good news is since they are positive for coronavirus they do not need to social distance, th