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States Must Be Even-Handed Towards Religion in Coronavirus Restrictions (Constitution news round-up)

4/15/2020

 
1A Free Exercise: Federal judge rules Louisville cannot ban Easter drive-in church service
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/apr/11/judge-sides-kentucky-church-oks-easter-drive-servi/?features-religion

  • “On Holy Thursday, an American mayor criminalized the communal celebration of Easter,” the judge wrote. “That sentence is one that this Court never expected to see outside the pages of a dystopian novel, or perhaps the pages of The Onion.”
  • The Mayor had argued that drive-in church services weren’t “practical or safe” for the community. However, the judge noted that drive-thru restaurants and liquor stores were still allowed to operate.

1A Religion: AG Barr says of COVID rules, states “may not impose special restrictions on religious activity that do not also apply to similar non-religious activity.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/ag-barr-issues-statement-mississippi-church-case-government-may-not-impose-special-restrictions-religious-activity/

1A Religion: HUD contractor seizing Bibles from public housing in defiance of Constitution and HUD rules
https://aclj.org/religious-liberty/hud-housing-residents-face-ban-on-religious-materials-and-obama-era-discrimination-against-faith-based-organizations-aclj-taking-action

1A,5A,14A: Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejects takings, due process, equal protection, speech, and assembly rights challenges to state’s COVID-19 restrictions
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/pennsylvania-covid-19-rules-survive-constitutional-challenges

Trump says Apple/Google contact tracing technology for coronavirus raises “constitutional problems”.  Probably not.  Contact tracing has been used for many years for many diseases.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/04/13/trump-says-apple-and-googles-covid-19-contact-tracing-program-is-amazing-but-warns-of-big-constitutional-problems

Chinese company claims 95% accuracy in facial recognition software for people wearing masks
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/how-china-built-facial-recognition-for-people-wearing-masks/

Shame! Governor Newsom keeps calling California a ‘nation-state’.  Well, then I guess he doesn’t’ need our tax money. 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/breaking-california-governor-newsom-continues-describe-california-nation-state-interviews-video/

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