Over a dissent from two justices Monday, the Supreme Court declined to take up the case of a utility worker who chose church over work on Good Friday and was promptly suspended. A parishioner makes an offering after outdoor mass at St. Agnes, a Catholic church in San Diego, California, during the Covid-19 pandemic. (Courthouse News photo/Barbara Leonard) WASHINGTON (CN) — Justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito balked Monday at their colleagues’ refusal to wade into a religious-discrimination case that could fortify the right to religious exercise. “The only mistake here is of the court’s own making — and it is past time for the court to correct it,” Gorsuch wrote this morning, saying the court should have granted a writ of certiorari to Christian electrician Jason Small.