By Terence P. Jeffrey | December 16, 2020 | 4:41am EST
A vendor cleans her stall at a market in Wuhan, China, the area where COVID-19 originated, on May 21, 2020. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)
Something that began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 continues, a year later, to have a monstrous impact on the way Americans live their lives.
We are less free today because a Chinese virus came our way and because of the way some politicians have reacted to it.
Start with the science: COVID-19 originated in China. As COVID-19 began spreading in Wuhan, China, it became an epidemic, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Because the disease then spread across several countries and affected a large number of people, it was classified as a pandemic.
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The United States Supreme Court has issued orders vacating lower court decisions against churches suing Colorado and New Jersey over each state’s restrictions on worship gatherings.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court issued an order in the case of
Robinson v. Murphy vacating an order from Oct. 2 by a district court in New Jersey against a Catholic priest and a Jewish rabbi who sued the state over worship gathering restrictions.
Also on Tuesday, the high court issued a separate order in the case of
(JTA) For the second time in three weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court indicated that state governments may not restrict religious gatherings more strictly than secular ones due to the pandemic.
Responding to an appeal by a New Jersey priest and an Orthodox rabbi, the high court in a unanimous opinion instructed an appellate court to review their claim that the rules laid down by Gov. Phil Murphy on limiting religious gatherings to 150 people or 25% of a room’s capacity, whichever number is lower, constituted religious discrimination. The court ordered a similar challenge to the restrictions in Colorado.
The order comes just weeks after the court blocked restrictions by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on religious gatherings in the state’s red zones areas with rising COVID cases. In that case, brought by the Catholic Church’s Brooklyn Diocese and the Orthodox Jewish umbrella group Agudath Israel and decided by the court’s new conservative majority, the court ruled that New York’