The Supreme Court's Leftist Bloc: Increasingly Hostile to the First Amendment

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : In the current term, the Court has decided (6-3, now that there is one fewer liberal justice on the bench) that the state of Maine cannot discriminate against religious schools in a state-provided voucher program for families who lack access to public schools in their remote communities.
58% : We already knew that the Supreme Court's leftist bloc is profoundly hostile to the Second Amendment, which it has badly misinterpreted in a series of decisions over recent decades.
52% : They're increasingly and disturbingly hostile to the First Amendment, as well.
51% : The First Amendment came first for a reason, and within the amendment, religious liberty is at the front of the list.
50% : Let's look at the text of the First Amendment, as it pertains to religious liberty: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
49% : Both the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment protect expressions like Mr. Kennedy's.
49% : The Supremes held that, "the Free Exercise and Free Speech Clauses of the First Amendment protect an individual engaging in a personal religious observance from government reprisal; the Constitution neither mandates nor permits the government to suppress such religious expression."
48% : Prior to the ruling, the state provided taxpayer-funded vouchers so parents could send their kids to private schools of their choice in these areas, but explicitly carved out religious institutions as disqualified from the program.
44% : Much attention has been paid to last week's SCOTUS decisions on guns and abortion, and understandably so.
40% : They're reassuring because the plain meaning of the First Amendment prevailed in all four instances.

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