Chief Justice John Roberts cast the deciding vote in a rare late-night ruling.
Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court’s four other liberal justices to deny the request for intervention from the South Bay United Pentecostal Church in Chula Vista, California.
The church had argued that the California Gov.
Liberal justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan likewise voted to deny the request, though they did not join theThe Supreme Court’s four conservative judges—Brett Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Samual Alito Jr.—said they would have granted the church’s request on the basis that California’s restrictions violate the Constitution’s protection of religious freedom.
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