“No Victory for Religious Liberty”: In Ruling for Praying Football Coach, the Supreme Court Smashes What’s Left of Separation Between Church and State

A few years ago, when five justices of the Supreme Court turned a blind eye to Donald Trump’s contempt toward Muslims and upheld a ban that barred millions of them from traveling to the United States, Justice Sonia Sotomayor sounded the alarm about playing favorites. Not with the sitting president, although her colleagues were certainly blessing one of his clearest displays of xenophobia as a matter of law. Instead, the justices appeared to be playing favorites with religion itself. “When the government acts with the ostensible and predominant purpose [of disfavoring a particular religion],” Sotomayor wrote, quoting an earlier case,… Read Full Article