William Wagner, Distinguished Professor Emeritus,Former federal judge, Former federal prosecutor.

 

Today’s Supreme Court decision is devastating. It is the worst kind of judicial activism in that it, under the guise of originalism, allows an unelected court to amend a statute passed by an elected Congress who previously refused to amend it in the way the court did today. 

 

We still have to wait to see if the court will restore the first amendment right to religious liberty in a way that limits exercise of government power