Neil Gorsuch: “We also have the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that... imposes an even higher standard on the Government than the…”

Congress has also delegated to them vast legislative and judicial powers.

Many of the arguments before us today follow a sadly familiar pattern. Yes, promises were made but the price of keeping them has become too great so now we should just cast a blind eye. We reject that thinking.

Doesn’t it entangle the state tremendously when it has to go into a soup kitchen, send an inspector in, to see how much prayer is going on?

If human nature and history teach us anything, it is that civil liberties face grave risks when governments proclaim indefinite states of emergency.