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On Monday, Judge Sonia Sotomayor gave a conservative majority of the Supreme Courtfor ignoring "separation of church and state" in a high school football coach's decision dismissed in post-match prayer. Blame.
Sotomayor was joined by Judges Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan to oppose the 6-3 decision in a case called the Kennedy vs. Bremerton School District. The majority ruled that coach Joseph Kennedy "is entitled to summary judgment on his First Amendment clams" in a proceeding in which the coach sought to return to his job.
However, the liberal judge said that the majority overemphasized the rights of this single individual when another part of the Constitution was also involved.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor on Monday In the 6-3 case, the Supreme Court, which led the liberal dissent, ruled a high school football coach fired for post-match prayer on the field. (Erin Schaff-Pool / Getty Images)
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"Official-led prayers are for religious freedom of students and their parents, as embodied in both the Establishment Clause and theFreedom Movement. It is at the core of constitutional protection. The provisions of Article 1 of the Amendment to the Constitution "Soto Mayor wrote. "The courts are now taking another path, but with a brief note on the prohibition of establishing a national religion by the establishment clause, almost exclusively on the protection of the free movement clause against individual religious movements. We are paying. "
Sotomayor said this decision would "disadvantage" schools, children, and "our long-standing commitment to the separation of politics."
"It is an individual's interest in a religious movement at the exact time and place of his choice, rather than a social interest in protecting the separation of the church and the state. And undermine the protection of religious freedom, all, "she added.
The Supreme Court sued Joe Kennedy on Monday. His school district arbitrated after it fired him from his high school coaching position to lead the post-match prayer. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)
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Judge Neil Gorsuch led the majority opinion, with the full addition of four other Republican-appointed judges. Judge Brett Kavanaugh joined Gorsuch's opinion, with the exception of a partial outline of the two-step decision method in the First Amendment to the School-related proceedings.
"Respect for religious expression is essential to life in a free and diverse republic," Gorsuch wrote. "Here, the agency sought to punish the individual for engaging in concise and quiet personal religious adherence ... and the only meaningful justification that the government provided for retaliation is that it It was based on the false view that it was obliged to ferret out and suppress ... Religious adherence despite allowing equal mundane speech. "
But Soto Mayor and her A liberal judge who disagreed with said that the majority were fundamentally misunderstanding the facts.
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They were 50 years old in Kennedy. The post-match yardlinefelt pressured to join him as a result of the district court's decision, effectively in a school-sponsored event. It became a part. In addition, the judge said the fact that the students were involved increased Kennedy's obligation to remain secular.
Judge Neil Gorsuch is against Kennedy The Supreme Court's 6-3 Monday decision in the Bremerton School District. (Erin Schaff / The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)
"Today's decision is to increase the religious rights of school officials. It's especially going in the wrong direction. Sotomayor is particularly vulnerable and worthy of protection than the students who voluntarily accepted public employment ... obliged to attend school, which the court has long admitted. ". "In doing so, the courts have taken us on a more dangerous path, forcing the state to engage with religion, and all our rights are balanced."
Sotomayor also said, "Existing precedents do not need to specify coercion, especially when children are involved." Therefore, she said, "It is clear that the establishment clause is violated."
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Kennedy vs. Bremerton School District Monday's opinion comes after court Last week, Roe v. Wade was overturned by a blockbuster opinion in the New York gun and abortion cases. Judges have left a few cases that need to be decided, including those related to immigration and environmental regulations, before the end of their current term.
Fox News' Ronn Blitzer, Bill Mears, and Shannon Dream contributed to this report.