On the night before Thanksgiving, as the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) COVID-19 executive orders to prohibit large church gatherings amid the pandemic, Justice Neil Gorsuch weighed in with a conservative stance condemning a number of key laws that do not align with his beliefs.
According to Law and Crime, Gorsuch’s choice of words centered on a column of constitutional law — a passage highlighting “implied right to ‘bodily integrity.” Gorsuch opted to draw a major distinction between “rights explicitly granted by the Constitution (e.g., the First Amendment rights to speech and religion) and rights presumably read between the lines of the Constitution’s text,” per the publication.
Here is an excerpt of the statements in which Gorsuch referred to Jacobson v. Massachusetts to explain his logic: Continue reading.