Blog Post 3.2 "SCOTUS 2020"

1. Both the Trinity Luthern and Espinoza involve state constitutional provisions that prohibited those states from spending money to "aid" churches and other religious institutions.
2. It would prohibit basic things such as police protection or fire protection: if a church caught on fire, the fire department would have to just let it burn baby.
3. The plaintiff argues that the ban forces students to "choose between attending a school that accords with her beliefs or receiving thousands of dollars in government benefits."
4. The US government spends an average of $11, 392 per year on each public school student.
5. Chief Justice Roberts said, "Denying a generally available benefit solely on account of religious identity imposes a penalty on the free exercise of religion that can be justified only by a state interest 'of the highest order.'"
6. The super-conservative Supreme Court is probably going to expand the rights of the religious conservatives.
7. The heart of both of the Pennsylvania cases is whether the Trump administration acted properly when it wrote a sweeping exemption into regulations requiring employers to include birth control coverage in employee health plans.
8. "when followers of a particular sect enter into commercial activity as a matter of choice, the limits they accept on their own conduct as a matter of conscience and faith are not to be superimposed on the statutory schemes which are binding on others in that activity."
9. Trump administration gave religious objectors a broad exemption from the requirement to provide birth control coverage. It gives anyone with a moral or religious opposition the option to just not provide coverage for birth control.
10. Trump's additions are all conservative and religious, so of course, they will side with the religious folks because women are beneath men in every single way possible and birth control is a luxury to women, like mints but worse because it prevents the precious baby from blossoming. You know, the baby that the woman probably doesn't want in the first place but hey it isn't her body so why does she get an opinion haha.