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Oct 1, 2019 8 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Is this déjà vu? No, the Little Sisters of the Poor are BACK at #SCOTUS, asking the Justices to let them get back to serving the elderly poor. Let’s go back to the beginning (THREAD):
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In 2013, the Little Sisters went to court to protect their #religiousfreedom against a #HHSmandate requiring employers to provide contraceptives, like the week-after pill, in their insurance plans.
That New Year’s Eve, Justice Sotomayor issued an emergency order to protect them, right before going to watch the ball drop in Times Square. The entire court affirmed that order in 2014 without dissent.
But lower courts didn’t get the message and ruled against the Little Sisters again. So in 2016 the Supreme Court stepped in again—and again acted unanimously—to protect the Little Sisters of the Poor. Image
After years of losing to the Sisters at the Supreme Court, the federal government finally got the issue right and agreed to leave them alone. Religious exemptions were issued in 2017 and finalized last November. s3.amazonaws.com/becketnewsite/…. .
Unfortunately, several states (not a typo, 20 states + D.C.) then sued the federal government, asking a federal judge to order the federal government to make nuns give out contraceptives. You can’t make this stuff up. This legal battle has gone on for 6 years too long.
The states have admitted they have many programs to provide contraceptives to women who want them, without forcing the Sisters to do so.
In a divided country, there are many things reasonable people can disagree on—but it is silly to think the government needs to bully nuns to give out contraceptives. Image

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Jul 27, 2021
In the Mississippi abortion case at the Supreme Court, @BECKETlaw just filed a #SCOTUS brief explaining how the Court’s abortion rights framework has generated many First Amendment conflicts. becketnewsite.s3.amazonaws.com/Becket-Amicus-…
Over the past decade, the Court has faced many First Amendment cases concerning abortion: pharmacist cases, contraceptive mandate cases, sidewalk counselor cases, and pregnancy center cases, to name just four types of cases.
It doesn’t have to be that way—other countries like France, England, and Germany—have experienced much less of this kind of abortion v. religious liberty conflict.
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Sep 25, 2020
.@TheJusticeDept just came out swinging in defense of Archbishop Cordileone & against San Francisco’s draconian ban on religious gathering. San Fran limits indoor worship to ONE PERSON AT A TIME, no matter how big the building--plainly unconstitutional: 1/ justice.gov/opa/press-rele…
The Archbishop has been saying mass and using creative, and lawful, ways to get his Catholic faithful the sacraments. He wrote this piece last week: 2/ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…
Today, DOJ wrote a letter to the City and one line sums it up: "No government in this free country can attack religion by transforming a house of worship arbitrarily into a place for solitary confinement." 3/
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Sep 19, 2020
.@AdeleScalia inspired me. Justice Ginsburg was more than a seat on #SCOTUS. Let’s tweet accordingly (thread)
Justice Ginsburg passed away yesterday after a long battle with cancer. She fought hard to continue serving as long as she could, including participating in oral arguments from a hospital room in May. She embraced suffering for what she believed to be a just cause. (1/5)
She had a remarkable legal career. A gifted advocate and legal strategist at the ACLU, she then served on the DC Circuit and spent nearly three decades on SCOTUS. She was a trailblazer in a generation in which few women would become lawyers, much less make it to #SCOTUS. (2/5)
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Sep 1, 2020
San Francisco Archbishop Calls on Mayor to End 'Excessive Limits' on Outdoor Mass ncregister.com/daily-news/san… #NCRegister
“Particularly for us as Catholics, attending the Mass and receiving the Body and Blood of Christ in person is the source and the summit of our faith, and we have shown we can celebrate the Mass safely,”
“San Francisco is the only government in the entire Bay Area that restricts public gatherings to 12 people out of doors."
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Jun 26, 2020
#BREAKING: A federal judge in NY has ruled that Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo have violated the Constitution by discriminating against religious groups, striking down #COVID lockdown orders that prevented outdoor and indoor religious activities.
In a case brought by Catholics & Orthodox Jews, Judge Gary Sharpe said @MayorNYC and @NYGovCuomo treated mass protests better than religious assemblies, which “sent a clear message that mass protests are deserving of preferential treatment” but religious groups were not. (2/x)
Citing “simultaneous pro-protest/anti-religious gathering messages,” Judge Sharpe ruled that the orders violate the #FirstAmendment because they don’t apply equally to religious assemblies and secular assemblies. (3/x)
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Jun 25, 2020
A thoughtful call to action from @ChristMedicus’s Louis Brown on the murder of George Floyd and #BlackLivesMatter: A New Birth for American Civil Rights thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/06/65397/ via @PublicDiscourse
“...we are called not only to pray but also to act for justice, because faith without works is dead. Faith communities provide leadership by coming together in a sustained way to atone for the sins of our country, including racism...”
“In the United States, such a healing process has never really taken place. Neither a person nor a country can “just move on” from deep woundedness. People and nations need healing to be fully free, functioning, and healthy....”
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