Fulton versus city of philadelphia. Ms. Windham. Mr. Chief justice and may it please theourt, the court below made a simple error. They failed to understand where emplment division versus sth controls and where it doesnt. Ith doesnt control when the government uses the system of individualized exemptions. Orem when it makes other exceptions that underminets rules or when it changes the rules to phibit a religious practice. Philadelphia made all threefe those errors here and the city still cant identify a neutral genelly applicable law even ter six attempts and in our knowledge is its decisions are subjective and individualized. The courts belowtill apply to smith and even said smith would be a dea letter if petitioners prevailed a that demonstrates the confusion and instability smith has csed. Respondents rather than defendansmith asked the court for a newly minted nstitutional standard that is even less protective of religious exercise and that approa has no basis in the text, history
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Hospitals and even deaths. But theres only so much we can emotionally handle as human beings, so ktell us how were supposed to deal with all of that . Thank you, mayor. I appreciate this, and again, this is such a challenging time, i would say the risks the downsides to the shelter in place and the slow reopening are very real and very concerning from a health standpoint and an economic standpoint. I think the Counter Point is no one has said, were going to go ahead and open quickly. As you see across the country, the Mental Health consequences of opening and having a surge, many people are struggling in San Francisco, but if we have a surge like we saw in new york or unfortunately like we saw in houston and parts of florida, we would have all of those concerns that youre talking about on top of the overwhelming the Hospital Systems due to covid19 plus the covid19 pandemic and everything that were dealing with and managing today. Unfortunately, theres downsides to where we are today, b
As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning, it is monday , april 6, 2020. The u. S. President warned americans to prepare for a pivotal week, with the Surgeon General drawing comparisons to the 1941 pearl harbor attack in the 9 11 terror attacks to describe the dark days likely ahead. This morning we are doing what we always do, opening up our phone lines and letting you talk about it. If you are in the eastern or central time zones, text messagesand this morning, if you would like to join us that way, the number is 2027488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from. You can get us on twitter cspanwj and on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Good monday morning, the front page of usa today with a picture of Surgeon General jerome adams on meet the press yesterday when he was asked about of the advice he has given to governors who have not issued stayathome orders. Say. Is
Fulfill our commitment to the u. S. House gaveling back in. Back to a vote. Have the honor to transmit a sealed envelope received from the white house on march 13, 2020, at 5 28 p. M. , and said to contain a message from the president on declaring a National Emergency concerning the nobel Novel Coronavirus disease outbreak. With best wished, i am, signed, sincerely, cheryl l. Johnson, clerk of the house. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the message. The clerk to the congress of the United States. Pursuant to per section 201 of the National Emergencies act, 50 United States code 1621, i hereby report that i have exercised my authority to declare that the outbreak of coronavirus disease in the United States constitutes a National Emergency. This declaration invokes section 1135 of the Social Security act, 42 United States code, to allow the secretary of health and Human Services to exercise the authority under that section to temporarily waive or modify certain requirements