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Over a dissent from two justices Monday, the Supreme Court declined to take up the case of a utility worker who chose church over work on Good Friday and was promptly suspended.
A parishioner makes an offering after outdoor mass at St. Agnes, a Catholic church in San Diego, California, during the Covid-19 pandemic. (Courthouse News photo/Barbara Leonard)
WASHINGTON (CN) Justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito balked Monday at their colleagues’ refusal to wade into a religious-discrimination case that could fortify the right to religious exercise.
“The only mistake here is of the court’s own making and it is past time for the court to correct it,” Gorsuch wrote this morning, saying the court should have granted a writ of certiorari to Christian electrician Jason Small.
Supreme Court Gives Michigan More Time to Retry Murder Case, Citing Pandemic-Related Delays
The Supreme Court overturned an appeals court order that required Michigan to retry a murder case by May 4 or release the defendant, after state officials cited trial delays related to the CCP virus pandemic.
The order in Brown v. Davenport came late in the day on Feb. 1. The state had directed its time-sensitive application to Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who referred it to the full court. Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the ruling but didn’t explain why.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat, welcomed the ruling.