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The Supreme Court radically redefined religious liberty in the COVID case Tandon v. Newsom.


Tandon yet another COVID decision in which Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s vote made the difference.
Although the conservative majority’s decision was unsigned and ran just four pages long, it radically altered the law of religious liberty. Since 1990’s
Employment Division v. Smith, the Supreme Court has not interpreted the First Amendment’s free exercise clause to require religious exemptions to laws that don’t discriminate against religion. In
Tandon, however, the majority effectively overturned
Smith by establishing a new rule, often called the “most favored nation” theory. Under this doctrine, any secular exemption to a law automatically creates a claim for a religious exemption, vastly expanding the government’s obligation to provide religious accommodations to countless regulations. In ....

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