Re:Supreme Court says state may enforce some restrictions on...
by wbl on Saturday May 30, 2020 @03:16PM
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Because these are facts not law! As Alito points out he isn't a doctor and he isn't going to second guess them in the middle of a plague.
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Re:Supreme Court says state may enforce some restrictions on...
by gizmo686 on Saturday May 30, 2020 @03:30PM
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I do not see any statement from Alito, but he voted with the dissent.
The position of Roberts (writing for the majority) is that:
> Where those broad limits are not exceeded, they should not be subject to second-guessing by an “unelected federal judiciary,"
Which is to say, even the majority acknlowdges that there are times where the courts should intervene. The question of what a "comparable" secular activity is is very much a legal one.
Re:Supreme Court says state may enforce some restrictions on...
by wbl on Saturday May 30, 2020 @08:33PM
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Oh good catch!
Re:Supreme Court says state may enforce some restrictions on...
by kmonsen on Saturday May 30, 2020 @03:24PM
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Didn’t he second guess doctors though? There were doctors writing the order but he said it should be overruled. Sorry if I’m misunderstanding, honestly want to understand here.
Edit: I have tried to find what Alito thinks but can’t find any information. He voted to fully reopen churches but did not join the dissenting opinion or wrote his own so I don’t really know what his opinion is.