How religious liberty became the Roberts court’s North Star
During the oral arguments surrounding the religious liberty questions in Groff v. DeJoy late last year, U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts told one of the lawyers that some previous federal cases about religion in American life may no longer be useful as a guide for deciding those in the future.
“Well, the law has developed in this area,” Chief Justice Roberts said, giving a short list of some of the momentous religious freedom rulings issued by the court he has led for almost 20 years. “You will, of course, have to take into account our religious jurisprudence as it exists, right?”
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court added two more rulings to its growing and unprecedented list of pro-religion decisions, which continue to profoundly reshape the nation’s evolving history of religious jurisprudence.
On Thursday, a unanimous Supreme Court overturned over 45 years of precedent when it ruled in favor of an evangelical Christian postal worker who sued the U.S. Postal Service, saying it violated the Civil Rights Act when supervisors would not consistently accommodate his request to have Sundays off, with Sunday being an important day of worship in his life.
Then on Friday,
