BREAKING: Court votes 5-4 to grant the religious plaintiffs’ request. Chief Justice Roberts notes his dissent. Justice Kagan writes a dissent joined by Justices Breyer and Sotomayor
https://twitter.com/stevenmazie/status/1380645973559545861
The per curiam 
The dissent
The per curiam sounds like Gorsuch to me, maybe Alito.
Remarkable that the per curiam announces that the result “clearly“ follows and is “dictated by” from the previous cases out of California. The chief justice, who sided with the conservatives in most of those decisions, dissents here! So it is clearly not clear.
And Roberts does not explain why he disagrees with his five conservative colleagues.
One possible reason Roberts quietly dissented: CA is set to lift the restrictions at issue by next Thursday. Perhaps that means five more days without large bible reading gatherings in homes doesn’t rise to the level of an emergency.
Or maybe he isn’t quite in the religion as “most favored nation” camp and sees CA’s *general* rule against more than three families gathering in a private home as not a violation of religious freedom.
“Respectfully” 🤔
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