We already knew that the Supreme Court’s leftist bloc is profoundly hostile to the Second Amendment, which it has badly misinterpreted in a series of decisions over recent decades. They’re increasingly and disturbingly hostile to the First Amendment, as well. The Roberts Court has generally been quite good on First Amendment issues, issuing a number of lopsided or even unanimous rulings safeguarding various liberties in this realm. But on cases ranging from Hobby Lobby to NIFLA v. Becerra in previous terms — to Carson v. Makin and Kennedy v. Bremerton this term — core First Amendment protections have broken down along ideological lines. The ‘progressive’ justices are frighteningly open to government coercion in the areas of free speech and especially religion. They envision an America in which the “separation of church and state,” which appears nowhere in the constitution, is robust and discriminatory against religion. As the phrase goes, […]
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